Ask HN: What will it take to get more people using Mastodon more?

• elk

  63 5,135 9.7 Vue

  A nimble Mastodon web client

  

Quick! Tell Obama and Taylor Swift about https://elk.zone! They're going to be so excited!

• Mastodon

  1,229 46,124 10.0 Ruby

  Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  

Give people a good interface that hides complicated things like federation, is very low barrier and looks nice.

As similar example consider lemmy. Here https://wefwef.app/ is a much, much better starting point for new users than the official page. Immediately shows you stuff, nice interface, no "what do I even click" problem.

Contrast that with https://joinmastodon.org/

- Need to click to another page first.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• wefwef

  106 908 9.4 TypeScript

  Discontinued Voyager — a mobile-first Lemmy web client (formerly wefwef) [Moved to: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager]

Give people a good interface that hides complicated things like federation, is very low barrier and looks nice.

As similar example consider lemmy. Here https://wefwef.app/ is a much, much better starting point for new users than the official page. Immediately shows you stuff, nice interface, no "what do I even click" problem.

Contrast that with https://joinmastodon.org/

- Need to click to another page first.

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