"Its social network"? Ewwww...

I don’t think it’s too much for the company that makes mastodon to claim mastodon is “it’s decentralised social network”. The way I read it they don’t claim ownership, they claim to be the author.

Look like good changes to me. There was nothing wrong with Mastodon, but sometimes you really had to have been a Mastodon user already to know how it works.

Mastodon didn't invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth...

No, they invented mastodon. Which is the thing they’re adjusting.

They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.

Realistic demo page: 5 posts, 0 interactions

Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it "its own thing". But I'll stop arguing as it's clearly pointless.

especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads.

That many people use Facebook Threads? That sounds like saying "especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to Reddit or New Digg."

The tooltip explanation for the handles should help, since that's a very common point of confusion.

X and threads are Microblog pages, seems plausible to me to use them as a comparison. It's the platforms we want to migrate people from to mastodon.

Changes look good but god dam I hate the discourse around fediverse software its like pulling teeth.

I agree, rather I was surprised that threads grew big enough for people to be trying to migrate away from it.

In my area / friend circles, I don't know anyone that continued to use Threads after the initial launch. However, there are people using Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter

It's not that bad.

People were autoregistered for threads if they already had an account for instagram or facebook iirc. It also auto reposts stuff between those services unless you turn it off i think. They just forcefully injected content from their other platforms to kickstart it.

least pedantic fedi user

I hate reading about how hard it is to sign up.

The mastodon people just posted this too. It's the designer's perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxpTvbTy54

it’s really not

I’m ok with filtering adoption to bare minimum effort

Ah, I just love how laws against anticompetitive business practices have basically been totally flushed down the toilet worldwide, don't you?

Mastodon project needs to fix how authentication is handled across user instances. This confuses newbies because they click a link and wind up at a remote server where they're not authenticated, and don't even realize it.

This divide is problematic across ActivityPub. Hubzilla and zot fixed that problem years ago.

Authentication friction is exactly the kind of invisible barrier that kills adoption. New users click a link and suddenly they are at a different server without warning. That is not just confusing, it is a fundamental UX failure.

really ? as a longer term Masto user id rather they stayed there.. Anyone still using X for example has already taken an indefensible stance.