Fans of Tweetbot for Twitter and Ivory for Mastodon have reason to get excited all over again as the developers at Tapbots tease a Bluesky client called Phoenix.
They used to get confused when ask to select a server, but now that they blindly get funneled into Masto.social, they get burned when they log into an existing account and are asked to enter a server that they didn’t know the selected. And there is no UX to recover / remember a forgotten server domain.
Every time there is a wave of interest in Lemmy or Masto, you always see confused people asking for basic account help in the comment threads.
Do they struggle with instances or does Mastodon not have the corporate appeal that mass media prefers?
After a half hour long conversation with my 63 year old father, I can confirm it’s the instances that’s confusing people.
They used to get confused when ask to select a server, but now that they blindly get funneled into Masto.social, they get burned when they log into an existing account and are asked to enter a server that they didn’t know the selected. And there is no UX to recover / remember a forgotten server domain.
Every time there is a wave of interest in Lemmy or Masto, you always see confused people asking for basic account help in the comment threads.