Ethan J. A. Schoonover0
MASTODON’S BREAKFAST CLUB PROBLEM in 10 posts. A Thread.
Here we go:
Mastodon’s UI has issues but it is not the real (or only) risk to adoption right now. It is, instead, what I’m calling the BREAKFAST CLUB problem.
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Twitter users are look for a lifeboat. They go to sign up with mastodon but the federated model is confusing and the main/original servers are full.
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Mastodon's onboarding process literally tells users to pick a server "based on their interests". This is like being asked to pick the lunch table you will sit at for the rest of your life.
DougN 
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@ethanschoonover yeah, but is it? I mean, you can always change tables. Hang with the people you like!
@RandomCanuck I know, the issue is that newbies onboarding are going to end up picking a table that they don't like and they won't change, they'll just bail.
I love that we have a bunch of weird edge case servers, but we need a more limited, filtered set of transitional onboarding servers for Mastodon.