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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by anigbrowl on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:09PM (#36345112)
It's 'being improved' even though it's been identified as a problem from the outset of the fediverse, nearly a decade ago. I don't know how to make this any simpler:

Forced choices drive away users. People don't like making decisions without context because they feel like scams. That's why uptake is slow almost a decade into federation. The UX model is bad.

Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by BaseballPhysics on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:15PM (#36345180)
> It's 'being improved' even though it's been identified as a problem from the outset of the fediverse, nearly a decade ago.

Ah, cool, so you just wanna complain. Got it. Carry on!

Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by brewdad on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:20PM (#36345942)
Picking a user name is a forced choice. By your logic, nobody would ever want to join a social media platform that didn't automatically assign a user name.
Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by anigbrowl on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:52PM (#36348777)
Asinine argument. Everyone already gets the concept of a name because they already have one. No such principle guides the selection of a server.