I think simplification in this case is okay. Such simplifications help Mastodon gain new users. You don’t expect people to take time to understand all this stuff. And let’s not pretend that this is easy-peasy for non-technical person.
You are not making it simple, just more confusing in the long term, switching terms left and right, it’s one thing for you to explain your good old friend doing some simplification and another to be a company writing about it and do such a poor work.
Exactly. It may be “cringe” for us who actually know/care about all this stuff, but for a news agency trying to reach a wide audience, its beneficial to simplify some of the more technical details. They’ll learn too, in time. Before long, people will be all comfortable saying with “instance” they are on. We just need to give it some time.
I think simplification in this case is okay. Such simplifications help Mastodon gain new users. You don’t expect people to take time to understand all this stuff. And let’s not pretend that this is easy-peasy for non-technical person.
You are not making it simple, just more confusing in the long term, switching terms left and right, it’s one thing for you to explain your good old friend doing some simplification and another to be a company writing about it and do such a poor work.
Exactly. It may be “cringe” for us who actually know/care about all this stuff, but for a news agency trying to reach a wide audience, its beneficial to simplify some of the more technical details. They’ll learn too, in time. Before long, people will be all comfortable saying with “instance” they are on. We just need to give it some time.