Apologies for the slightly, deliberately, click baity title there but honestly, the entire thing just seems a bit.. over wrought?
I’ll admit I’m a little behind the curve as I, rightly or wrongly, view the whole fediverse/mastodon thing as geeks being a little too geeky for their own good, it’s all a little too exclusionary if you don’t ‘grok’ the language (do we not say that anymore since X use it?), or don’t understand the nuance behind how it all hangs together.
Maybe I need to go read a 101 or something.
Anyway, I mention this purely because a couple of interesting posts I read recently had a ‘load comments’ option, which I clicked, and then was greeted with a mastodon link which I clicked and then was told that if I wasn’t on that server I couldn’t log in? So I couldn’t easily leave a reply so… that was that.
Not a great user experience, not very open web.
I didn’t bother going any further, my comments are rarely ever that much of an issue that they MUST be read. But then why put in such a barrier at all?
What are your thoughts?