@feditips This isn't harmful at all – no more so than the existence of the Mastodon app itself.

It's just an "easy mode" for people to sign up without having to understand a bunch of stuff first. Good for people who have heard of Mastodon and gone to the app store and typed in "Mastodon" without doing all this homework people think they should be doing.

As they learn, they might make different decisions. Or not! (I've stuck around on .social)

Campaigning against this doesn't help new users.