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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by ceejayoz on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:20AM (#33435295)
> I would also expect a decentralized network to easily support multiple identities. At least the default client seemingly does not.

The official iOS client certainly does. Long press on the profile icon at the bottom right to switch/add.

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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by stewbrew on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:42AM (#33435612)
oh well. speak about discoverability. many thanks for this hint.
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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by Kadin on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:22AM (#33436262)
Yeah there are some UX optimizations that could probably be made...

OTOH, I can't think of many big-name mobile apps that don't have some issues with less-than-obvious long-press functionality. (Snapchat seems to literally do this shit on purpose, because it's "fun" apparently.)

IMO that's a general problem with mobile UX... long-press actions have zero affordance. There's no way to tell short of randomly long-pressing on stuff what's going to have an action associated with it.

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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by SyrupThinker on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:43PM (#33438770)
Tried the iOS app for the first time today and I got a prompt right after login with a small overlay pointing at the profile icon explaining this.
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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by VectorLock on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:20PM (#33438329)
Gmail client on Android lets you change profiles by swiping up/down on the profile icon which is probably one of the best discoveries of my week (its been a slow week)
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