An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on)
JustinHanagan@kbin.social to 
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PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.
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opens site
gets greeted by subscribe pop-up and cookie banner
closes site
That's more of a substack issue
The content of the guide (the real guide linked below) is pretty good :)
https://www.staygrounded.online/p/a-simple-guide-to-mastodon-and-the
You can just click "no thanks" to the subscription box, but I've copy-pasted the full guide (short version) here for you:
Of all the sites with popups, this site is one of the least annoying.
The most annoying is video popups. Those get ublocked.
Do you just open up and then close like every site you visit??
I haven't seen a popup ad in years
It’s not a pop up ad, it’s a little pop up on the page asking to subscribe to a mailing list, I see them on most sites that host articles.
No pop-ups are acceptable. It doesn't matter how small the pop-up is.
No pop-ups are acceptable to you.
If a site makes good content and doesn’t drown the actual article with ads then I’m not gonna begrudge a small mailing list pop-up, but each to their own.
Honestly I'd personally prefer a mailing list form at the bottom of the page, but I get why they do it so I'm kind of okay with it.
So ads for their mail list and more data to be sold later. Size doesn't matter when it comes to ads and nefarious content.
It's just a little pop up...
Or, just a small site trying to make good content and engage users in a way that means they’ll return.
“BuT If I lIkE tHE CoNteNt I’lL CoMe BaCk AnYWay”, and some people would prefer a mailing list. There’s nothing inherently evil about a mailing list pop up…
So you want more spam ads in your email that is already overloaded with spam. No thanks, no social media site needs to send me email.
I just clicked no, wasn’t that difficult tbh…
You can make and propose a mailing list without a pop up…
if you power through that then next stop is that this is not the full article and need to click "Read full story"