Ask HN: What will it take to get more people using Mastodon more?

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  • elk

    A nimble Mastodon web client

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  • Mastodon

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

    Give people a good interface that hides complicated things like federation, is very low barrier and looks nice.

    As similar example consider lemmy. Here https://wefwef.app/ is a much, much better starting point for new users than the official page. Immediately shows you stuff, nice interface, no "what do I even click" problem.

    Contrast that with https://joinmastodon.org/

    - Need to click to another page first.

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  • wefwef

    Voyager — a mobile-first Lemmy web client (formerly wefwef) [Moved to: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager]

    Give people a good interface that hides complicated things like federation, is very low barrier and looks nice.

    As similar example consider lemmy. Here https://wefwef.app/ is a much, much better starting point for new users than the official page. Immediately shows you stuff, nice interface, no "what do I even click" problem.

    Contrast that with https://joinmastodon.org/

    - Need to click to another page first.

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