[tgvaughan]

I'm a "normal person" who's never created a mastodon account, and just tried this. The original article (a "toot") has a "sign up now" button in the side pane, which I clicked, entered a username and email address and pressed submit. I immediately received an email with a confirmation link, which I clicked. Now I can toot.

[ehutch79]

Somehow I doubt your level of technology literacy is the same as the average twitter/threads user. (You'd have more tech literacy) Just being on hacker news is a bit of a filter.