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I’m reluctant to use Mastodon because I don’t see it gaining much traction outside of tech. It’s incredibly annoying to use, and the entire concept of how different servers work is far too complicated for any non-tech user. It really needs a frontend to take off that regular people can join without having to worry about getting anything setup.

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Please give it a go. For all the talk about needing to know things and the process being complicated, I've only heard from one person who actually had any issues with that side of the system. I think people mostly overthink this. For example, go to https://hachyderm.io , register your account, done. If you want to research other instances and think about it some more in the future, you can move somewhere else - you're not stuck to one place. In the meantime, I don't ever think of the "entire concept of how different servers work" while using the service.

This is a really common attitude _on Hackernews_, but, well, on Mastodon, non-tech people seem to be using it happily enough (in particular it is full of journalists, for obvious reasons).

I don't think this should be that surprising, because people already use _email_.

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