An interesting problem:

I've been hearing from a lot of folks that "I'm trying to sign up for Mastodon and it's not letting me / it's confusing / it's a mess / it's broken"

When I inquire, these folks are always using a mobile app to sign up

My sense is ... many mobile apps are bad *in general*, and their signup is *particularly* broken

I tell these folks to sign up using a plain 'ol browser and it works

I'm now switching my "hey, sign up!" advice to insist on using a browser