This is an AI-generated summary of TFA?
replyIt's a copy paste of the readme intro. Don't know why it's left as a comment here
replyHacker News marketing skills tell people to leave a context comment on Hacker News. Don't complain about it too much, that is our way of figuring out who is lazy in an obvious way!
replyWhen someone makes a submission, the text field becomes a comment when the URL field is not empty. (but sometimes not?) It's a poorly designed form that should be redone.
replycan any layman user simply use it without running their own instance?
replyYes, you will need to know someone running an instance to create an account for you.
replySo... no? :)
replyPresumably if the protocol becomes popular you will have public instances that anyone* can sign up to, the same way other federated services work now.
reply(It's approximately as hard for a layman user to sign up to a Mastodon instance as it is to sign up for X. The fact that most layman users don't do that is a separate issue.)
Yes, you can try it without running your own instance. You will need to use someone else's instance.
replyIf you (top and child commentator) want to try without running your own, please send me an email: david dot collantes at gmail dot com.
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