The idea that Mastodon onboarding *should* be hard, that it's *right* for it to be hard, is literally just elitism

We are now looking at the worst possible case scenario — Musk clears marginalised people off #Twitter but the platform remains viable, advertisers and journalists continue to use it, and marginalised people are shut out of discourse on a worldwide scale — and part of that is a lack of will on the part of the old guard to reduce the friction involved in Mastodon onboarding

You've been told about ways the onboarding processes can be made easier but you want to remain hip, cool, despite the fact that an actively antisocial social network is by definition strangling itself to death

You've been told about safe and ethical ways to implement #QuoteToots and yet you continue to insist that QTs are inherently unethical and unsafe and I'm beginning to think it's because you just don't want to be criticised

@epistemophagy Are you aware that Akkoma provides QTs and, if so, why aren't you saying people should use Akkoma instead?

@lethargilistic

1) I am aware that #Akkoma provides #QuoteToots. I think Mastodon has an unparalleled opportunity to reimplement them in a way compliant with the anti-abuse spirit around which it was designed

2) The existing momentum is toward #Mastodon, and based on Fediverse Observer it doesn't look like the constellation of Akkoma instances currently up is likely to be able to scale to meet demand in any kind of timely fashion