Sue Smith on Nostr: To set aside the exclusionary shit and put my educator's hat on for a minute, the ...
To set aside the exclusionary shit and put my educator's hat on for a minute, the primary thing that makes mastodon complicated for people to get started with is not technical or practical, people know how to fill out forms - it's conceptual. Understanding how to choose an instance requires a significant amount of context, together with a clear sense of the implications of that choice. And we haven't done a great job of providing that context in an accessible way, so far anyway.
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