No ads, no trackers, no prompts to get you to spend $8 a month for a premium version - Mastodon has been welcoming users fleeing Twitter ever since tech billionaire Elon Musk rebranded it as X. However one of Mastadon's biggest advantages has also been something of a headache when it comes to finding and following new users. Unlike X's one-platform-for-all approach, Mastodon uses a decentralized approach, allowing people to pick from a broad range of versions of Mastodon, with each different ins
Mastodon users don’t want such a thing, they see things like it as potential vectors for abuse and harassment.
And it’s very centralized approach. IMHO typing in handles is a good approach for a decentralized platform. Also scanning QR codes on a conference instead of exchanging business cards. You don’t need a seperate website for that. And noone wants to browse lemmyverse on a conference just to add someone (the issue they’re obviously trying to solve with that.)
A small, but vocal segment of Mastodon users get very angry when someone creates any account discoverability service beyond what’s built in to Mastodon. They do not speak for everyone.