@hugh
writes,

> "the basic principles have mostly held up to now: the culture and technical systems were deliberately designed on principles of consent, agency, and community safety. Whilst there are definitely improvements that could be made to Mastodon in terms of moderation tools and more fine-grained control over posting, in general these are significantly superior to the Twitter experience. It's hardly surprising that the sorts of people who have been targets for harrassment by fascist trolls for most of their lives built in protections against unwanted attention when they created a new social media toolchain. It is the very tools and settings that provide so much more agency to users that pundits claim make Mastodon "too complicated"."

See https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

This is an important point of difference between a centralised corporate controlled social media that many are familiar with; they seem to have issues finding #fediverse too complicated.

On the one hand, if they were to take it easily, post status updates, follow others, and step by step, the experience of fediverse for a newcomer would be a lot smoother. Instead, many people want to replicate their birdsite/twitter experience on #mastodon and get frustrated.