Taking a Look at Mastodon
I tried Mastodon for 1 day recently, and then I gave up and deleted my account.<p>The web interface wasn&#x27;t good (worse than Twitter if you can believe it), the native client I tried wasn&#x27;t good either, but the worst problem is that following accounts of a different instance was a major pain. In retrospect, I made the mistake of joining the smaller mastodon.online rather than mastodon.social, which they claimed wouldn&#x27;t make a difference, but it did.<p>I couldn&#x27;t just follow someone on another instance from their profile page, because their profile page is on a different server from mine. It wanted me to copy a URL, paste it into a search field, find the account, and then follow, which is ridiculous and tiresome.<p>The onboarding for new users on Mastodon seems terrible in every way.<p>(I also couldn&#x27;t disable &quot;boosts&quot; in my timeline, which is something I could do on Twitter.)<p>I wanted to like Mastodon! But I just didn&#x27;t, and I didn&#x27;t feel like enough other people were going to like it either to make it worthwhile to use.