I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?
I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!
The instance system definitely makes it a bit confusing. I’m a programmer and I’ve played around with some Mastodon stuff during my study. Still, as a user, it’s quite chaotic sometimes.
I’m kinda wondering what this will converge towards. Is everyone going to join the same instance? Are different communities be kinda randomly spread over instances, where for every community in the end one instance dominates? Or will there just be chaos?
There’s also some buggy behavior every now and then, but that’s easily forgiven imo.