Threads has crossed 50 million signups and I’m highly annoyed that Mastodon’s signup flow is still super clunky—after years of begging the project to do something about it (it’s better than it used to be, but there’s still lots of room for improvement).
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:12:42 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ -
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Pierce ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🌵 (rcpierce@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:44:28 JST Pierce ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🌵 @zbrown @thomasfuchs You have to pick an instance, with most instances being unknown to a first-timer.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:44:28 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @rcpierce @zbrown fwiw the mobile app now defaults to mastodon.social (can optionally change it), which removes a lot of friction
This is fine because people can move servers once they found something they like
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zbrown (zbrown@hackers.town)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:44:29 JST zbrown @thomasfuchs it’s been so long since I did it… but how is it anything more than username and pass?
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Sloan Studio (sloanstudio@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:50:54 JST Sloan Studio @thomasfuchs There are only a few who work on it still. Right? To grow they need to generate revenue to hire more.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 10:50:54 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @SloanStudio a good signup flow doesn’t have anything to do with how many people work on it
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nosh :fosstodon: (ʘ‿ʘ) (nosherwan@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 11:30:38 JST nosh :fosstodon: (ʘ‿ʘ) @thomasfuchs I doubt sign up is the main issue for users.
From experience most users want a text search functionality on all servers.
They dont like using hashtags.
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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 11:30:38 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️ @nosherwan rn Threads only has user search, no search for content
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