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mstdn.social

There is technically still an option on the official app to "pick my own server", but it's much harder to read or notice, and new users will probably click the mastodon.social button without even understanding the other button.

Mastodon.social just passed 1 million registered users about a week ago, out of a total network of approx 7 to 11 million users (dependiing on how you count them).

Most of these users probably signed up via the official app.

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FediTips has moved!

For the first time ever, the most common way to sign up on the Fediverse is now directing people to sign up on one specific server, rather than making them choose.

This will make mastodon.social grow even more quickly than it has before, and future waves of new Mastodon users may end up mostly there. It's very plausible this one server could become the majority of the Fediverse in the near future.

If that happens, the Fediverse would no longer be protected from buyouts by nasty people.

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Jeena

@feditips Oh wow, that is very sad. There should probably be an artificial cap on the size of the server if technically they can grow so much because someone is skilled in running it well on one server.

@feditips a "vision loss empathy" setting on an extension I use for webdev: it doesn't even look like it's something you have the option to click.

First Dread Pirate Roberts

@feditips Maybe #Mastodon is taking lessons from #Microsoft. They used to have a teeny, tiny #button (well, a link, really) to skip the automatic update to Microsoft Windows 10.

Elias Mårtenson

@feditips On the other hand, statements from someone that I respect, who spent a long time on twitter but finally joined us here, have said, after having spent many months here, that they still believe that the onboarding problem is real.

Don't take me wrong, I agree with you on everything you said. I'd rather see less people join the Fediverse than seeing more centralisation around m.s. But if the goal is to bring more people in, something like this needs to be done.

Perhaps an option would be for instances to make their own application (which would just be one of the common applications, but branded to their instance).

That way, if you wanted to join mstdn.social, you just download the mstdn.social application.

A lot of people these days don't know the difference between an application and a website anyway, so this may actually be more in line with expectations.

Folker

@feditips I prefer new users joining mastodon.social instead of not joining Mastodon at all because it is too complex.

Peque

@feditips maybe it's a bad idea, but would be nice that the official app asked for topics you are interested in (
like other social media platforms do when you sign up). And then showed you a list of servers that for in that category.