This is a very white space. All POCs need to recruit fam
@Lexialex Are you talking about octodon.social or Mastodon as a whole?
@starbreaker *whispers* they’re not the same thing?
@Lexialex @starbreaker Imagine a big group of friends and family goes out to dinner and reserves a big table. Imagine several other big groups ALSO book the same restaurant. They all arrive at various overlapping times. Turns out you know the guy at the next table, so you start chatting. He introduces you to the person next to him, and you all talk. This happens all around the restaurant.
Mastodon is the restaurant, the different reserved tables are the instances.
@Lexialex @demonkind It should be, but right now if you want to add a table you pretty much have to get an IKEA flatpack and build it first.
I understand that @gargron and the other developers are working on this, but until web hosting providers provide "one-click" installs for Mastodon the way Dreamhost provides them for stuff like WordPress, you'll need some sysadmin skills to set up your own instance.
@starbreaker @Lexialex @demonkind Heeeeyyyy actually you don't need skills to get a Mastodon server, as there are hosts that will provide one for you, notably https://maastodon.net/ (that's MaaS as in Mastodon As A Service) and https://masto.host/
I keep forgetting about those. Sorry about that.
@Lexialex @starbreaker They /are/ easy access for anyone who is comfortable in this sort of tech spaces. The challenge, very real and important, is to find a way to make these spaces more welcoming to the unfamiliar and the (justly) suspicious.
@demonkind @starbreaker very good. But why does it take skill to get a table. Shouldn’t a table be easy to access for all?