About 60% of the twitter/bsky/mastodon experience can be done anonymously. But client never surface an anonymous/no-account mode.
You only need an account when you want to interact. But ALL the major sites, the first experience is "You know why you're here, create an account" and you can't see anything of the normal experience. (Trends and a chaotic federation feed is not my experience and that is a bad experience)
"Matt, that's impossible! The good API endpoints require auth!"
Nope, follow, main feed, algo, search, lists, favorites can all be done client side.
What you can't do is notifications, chat, replies/reactions.
♡ 0 ↻ 0"But Matt, Twttr has been around since 2007, everyone knows what it is!"
My wife hasn't used any of the twitters ever. Most people at my office don't have bsky or mastodon.
We lose these people my making them login before feeling any of the regular experience.
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