Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@lianna@micro.webgarden.click
Thanks so much for the really detailed feedback report and for trying! 🙏
This is really interesting! 👍
I'm not sure what can be done in this particular scenario, it sounds like she thought it was some kind of commercial agreement? 😦
Also I'm guessing Mastodon is perhaps just not similar enough to Facebook to make a direct switchover workable, even if she did sign up?
This is all useful feedback though, will keep your post in mind!
lianna@lianna@micro.webgarden.click
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services No no, no worries. I don't think this is actionable feedback that should be acted upon.
Some people just really want to find excuses to avoid changing their habits or world views. "I don't know of it so it must suck" is a very common reaction in many aspects of life.
I wanted to demonstrate that a lot of the voices calling the Fediverse inaccessible or too complicated are not acting in good faith. They've never made an attempt to think about it at all because they've pre-decided that they don't want it and don't need it.
Some generations were brought up with the wisdom that if it's not advertised by a handsome man in a nice suit and backed by an important-sounding corporate name, it must be a scam or some kind of inferior product.
We shouldn't take these complaints at face value ('the Fediverse is too complex for normal people'), but as of what they are: expressions of discomfort with the unknown and new.