Posting about posting.
It really is the Linux of twitters, and that person seemed to be completely unable to understand that the "overwhelm with options" approach they were going with trying to evangelize to June was just entirely counter productive.
Friction. Friction to the desired experience.
Yeah yeah yeah all that ink spilled on "experiences dumbed down" and turning users from users into mere consumers, content, dumbing down experiences
But that is the thing. Not everyone wants or can be a power user. Not everyone wants to build or configure EVERYTHING.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN EASY to say "ok what kinda posting do you want" and
just point to the appropriate instance for shit
not "you have all these optionsssss"
if you want to evangelize about something to someone
you have to think as a fucking casual user
"what is your need"
not "you have all these tools, figure it out yourself"
also the sheer load of "you are an idiot and a jerk for not understanding something as simple as the fediverse and you ignorant sheep nazis deserve to die alone along with twitter"
at any moment they're about to start john galt monologuing on their mastodon account that nobody follows because it's literally nothing but metagrievanceposting and they genuinely think that they didn't alienate anyone, everyone alienated them
plus it's just a bad experience. socially and technically it's alllll friction
Is that nowhere else, outside the realm of "tech", things are expected to be "frictionless". There's learning curve to everything, from baking a pie to picking up a musical instrument. Or, alternatively, there are people who do it for you, and whom you pay.
And yet the moment there's "friction" in tech, people start throwing feces around yelling "how dare you".
And yeah, it might "alienate the common user" but whatever I guess. I made my peace with it. Can't make a horse drink and all that.
