maybe people joining here from the birdsite and being barraged with “how to mastodon/fediverse etiquette/please adapt to our culture” is what makes them say “mastodon is difficult”
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@pingiun While yes, that *is* probably a factor, it's also important to keep in mind that that's not *technical* difficulty, but people having to get used to an environment that prioritizes the collective over the individual - something that has been pretty much extinct in social media for years now.
I don't think it is avoidable (it's basically re-learning a skill), nor that it is necessarily a problem if people bounce off because of it (for now), considering how overburdened everybody already is dealing with the influx.
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@joepie91 yea it’s another kind of difficulty