Yeah, the biggest problem with this approach is different moderation philosophies. You would have to set up a vetted set of approved non-problematic instances. I’ve read several accounts of people who tried out fedi and left soon after, and nothing sours the newcomer experience more than unknowingly joining an instance with a toxic community/moderators

What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn’t blocked bluesky as well

My perspective as someone who is mainly active in the anime/gaming fandom and gamedev space:

• Easier onboarding overall since you don’t have to bother with choosing an instance and all that
• despite starting out with less features than mastodon (no gifs, they are only getting video in the next update wth), the UI is overall more user-friendly and similar to Twitter’s
• Customizable feeds you can easily subscribe to in-app so you instantly have some content on your timeline (+ it’s easy to be found in these feeds without having to research the specific tags to use)
• Discoverability (through features and community efforts) is so much better. As someone who mainly follows artists, the last few days my TL was full of people doing artshares via quote-repost chains or sharing “starter packs” with lists of people to follow
• I have seen exactly one artshare post on mastodon so far (the japanese side seems to have it figured out a bit better, though. I regularly see tag-based artshares going around)
• meanwhile, to achieve a similar experience on mastodon I had to manually build myself different feeds in phanpy in which I’m following ~30 tags I have painfully collected to find the posts I’m interested in
• quote-retweets don’t exist yet but I kind of see the benefit now
• the stackable moderation also helps a lot

Overall, I think the main problems on Mastodon’s side are difficult onboarding and lack of actual community-building efforts. Also, the community just seems to be less welcoming for creators in general imo

Thank you for the nice reply! ☺️

I think, out of the different approaches outlined in the post, I’d go with the main menu link. Larian’s pre-game launcher is honestly kind of annoying, since it takes one more step to start the actual game. And the in-game pop-up method I’d only use if the advertised game is a direct sequel imo 🤔

turkish flat bread filled with spiced minced meat and/or cheese and sprinkled with sesame. The pide we make have a slightly crunchy and sweet crust, are very fluffy, and taste overall amazing

she’s adorable!

There’s a website

he needs to be shared with the masses 😌

opening that site gave me 10 points psychic damage

You tell me

It’s from some generic android game I used to play years ago, where you’re playing as one of the chinese emperor’s concubines. I don’t remember much about it tbh

Let’s go to the optometrist together