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[–] [email protected] 127 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mastodon instances keep deactivating my accounts when I don't post anything for two weeks, so yeah. Bsky it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that's standard. I'm on mastodon.social where I haven't posted in forever and it's still there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll admit, I just stopped trying after it happened a few times. It doesn't offer anything worth the headache of selecting an instance. Also when I was trying mastodon.social wasn't available, I think? Don't remember any more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The headache of selecting an instance is why i chose mastodon.social and lemmy.ml. I just join the one made by the developers of the thing

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Honestly.... Ya, literally any extra steps in signing up or slight bit of confusion is enough to make the average person give up and go back to whatever platform they are comfortable with. I've talked to people who dispise twitter but won't even switch to Bluesky because the extra dot in the user handle is too weird for them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yeah honestly they should make cars with one pedal. Two is just way to confusing for the average person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Conflating ease of operation with ease of sign up. Have you ever tried to read an article online and something pops up and you left the page, even if it wasn't necessarily trying to get you to log in? That's the sort of thing they're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait until I tell you about the cars with three pedals.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hi I found a 4th pedal on the far left that doesn't come back up when I press it, and my car makes funny smells now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My bicycle only has two pedals, but the seat smells funny too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's probably a controversial opinion, but you could solve that problem by not sniffing bicycle seats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Who said it was a problem?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

One-pedal driving is a feature in a number of modern cars.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you've only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It's the same with servers/instances and social media

Edit: spelling

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Does anyone actually say this though? I don't think anyone who joined Bluesky did so for federation - they joined because it's not Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I joined because it lets me use my domain as my username without having to host an instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah that’s a really cool feature.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

You forgot, it’s also not mastodon.