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Mastodon needs a UI that better facilitates on-ramping people new to the platform. I tried it a few times and it just felt like work finding people to follow.
Bsky on the other hand is a twitter clone and so people leaving twitter really don’t need to rework their understanding of how to use the platform.
I don’t like Bsky though so I don’t use either of them.
"Finding people to follow" struck me as odd. Discussing interests with like-minded people or just lurking and reading smart or dumb things would be the standard, at least in my experience. Maybe your path makes more sense. I'm a bit of an introvert so I usually avoid engaging.
I'm good with discussing interests or lurking and reading stuff that's interesting but generally found it impeding to do either. The interface should be intuitive, and I don't think I should have to look to an external resource to figure out how to use the app (so I didn't).
Facebook: discussing different things with friends
Reddit: discussing the same things with strangers