The Newcomer's Guide to Mastodon, from a Crusty Old-Timer
The Newcomer's Guide to Mastodon, from a Crusty Old-Timer
Perspectives on wading into the deep end of the pool with Mastodon, from a guy who's been on the network for 15 years.
cross-posted from: https://m.freespace.nohost.me/post/2872
'If you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve just signed up for Mastodon. Or, perhaps you’re thinking about trying it out, or have at least heard other people mention it. There are many guides out...'
Started reading it. Reached "The first thing to do after signing up is to get verified.". This steps described that I need to paste special html code on my website.
A regular person will stop here and go to twitter.
Yeah, I thought verification was specifically NOT required on Mastodon?
I do not know, but this guide is not friendly for new wide audience. BTW, the next step there is setting up stream settings. But I still have no idea why I should create an account, what I can do with it and how to start - i.e. how to find whom to follow (twitter addresses this issue pretty effective).
Do you think that's overly complicated for the tutorial? It should be easy to make it more simple.
Yes. I think a tutorial should be simple and follow steps a new user should do this sequence touching more details later. Starting with why this could be interesting and what this brings.
I also find generic thesis that instance dies not matter rather misleading. At least for Lemmy.
I've given up because my phone will always auto correct "its" to "it's"
Unless I'm sending a professional text, I'm not bothering to fix it.