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I've changed quite a few parts on joinmastodon.org/servers today in response to the feedback from the past week. In detail:

You can now filter by region, type of legal entity, and sign-up speed. Added note about why the topics filter exists. Changed tagline.

"Get on waitlist" has become "Apply for an account" for servers that manually review new sign-ups. Removed total user count from cards.

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Tom Casavant

@Gargron
They aren't terribly popular over here yet, but any chance you can add a 'sports' category for instances, the only one I've seen so far is allpro.social, but I've seen a lot of people on the bird site requesting that category

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Tafkak

@Gargron Would it be possible to add the ability to add content warnings for posts you boost? I’d like to be kind to the people who follow me, while still being an activist for critical, sometimes stressful, issues.

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Jos Bell

@Gargron the thing I find most frustrating with Mastodon is needing to know the full 'address' of someone in order to find them to follow when all Mastodon addresses are so different..I've tried and failed to find lots of people today who I know are on here. Frustrating!!

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Dodgethequeue

@Gargron is there an ability to get the top trending hashtags on the entire fediverse? It’s one of those things to that makes you feel that you are not silo’d off

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David Hooper

@Gargron I'm curious what the top factor for choosing a server is. Any thoughts on this?

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Nick Felker, 🗽🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Gargron I applaud your efforts to move quickly here. One thing that confused me at first was seeing a long list of servers and not knowing which to choose.

I realize that it doesn't entirely matter, but the current documentation could make choosing feel less existential.

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weems

@Gargron Yeah it was confusing me looking at it where you could not limit the results by sites with open invites.

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Raito Bezarius

@Gargron How to reference a server on this page?

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Simon Willison

@Gargron would it be possible to show the list of servers that have been blocked by a server on there? Might help people pick servers that are being actively moderated

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Grant_M

@Gargron It's looking great over there. A load more tooter friendly :)

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Roh Ash

@Gargron do you have help or are you doing this all by yourself?

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zeitzug

@Gargron Good morning and thanks.

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Markus 🌻

@Gargron thank you for your continuous efforts and support for the community. Much love.

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@Gargron
Biggest points of friction for me that make it a non-starter to recommend to non-tech friends:
1) the requirement to pick a server up front. I found myself wishing google would host an instance just to avoid having to think about this before I'd had a chance to even see what it is.
2) Server links go straight to sign up pages, instead of a browse page for a peek at what is actively being talked about there

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@Gargron That was a very usfeul change! thank you Eugen

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Jhony Gutierrez 👋🏼

@Gargron Appreciate what you've built here and all the work that goes into it, so a huge thank you first. Secondly, looks like a couple of friends tried to join mastodon.online but never received confirmation emails even after trying the re-send link. Should that be automatic or is there a waiting period or queue for new signups there? (TY again!)

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Maarten den Braber

@Gargron good changes, but maybe the idea to find a *server* should actually be more focused on the idea of "Find your community?"

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Ignis Incendio

@Gargron May I ask what’s the reasoning/feedback of removing the total user count from the list? Thank you for your hard work!

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