The signup process for mastodon sucks massively. Unless you're nerdy enough to sort it out, you'll give up then and there. Bluesky is very straightforward, while offering customization to those looking for a non-mainstream experience.

Same for Lemmy tbh.

[–] aoidenpa 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not an expert but I heard languages, religions and cultures has some irrational and hard to imitate rules so that outsiders can't join in or blend easily. Is this similar? Maybe it's an advantage?

[–] Wilmo 1 points 3 days ago

I don't really remember signing up for mastodon so I tested it.

mastodon.social -> create new account -> agree to terms -> username + email + password -> click email verification

It's literally standard. Maybe in the past it was worse I vaguely remember giving up maybe a year or two before I made an account on mastodon.social.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just went to mastadon.social for mastadon and like the biggest national lemmy instance we have, feddit. Although I have to criticize the old instance of feddit shutting down unexpectedly and I had to migrate to a newer one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is a Mastadon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's an extinct species of mammoth. God knows why it's named after an extinct elephant.