1

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.

2

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.

3

How do you choose a single table to sit at when we’re all the nerd, the jock, the princess, the basket case, and the criminal?

(don't @ me with "you can change servers" I know. The problem is that this is still the first thing you are being asked to do.)

4

Many servers are run by fairly centrist position admins. Some are little hobby farms with high restrictive policies. Both are, in theory, totally fine and compatible with the fediverse.

5

I highly recommend this recent @lawfare podcast where @qjurecic, @arozenshtein, and @klonick dig into the nitty gritty of decentralized social media, mastodon, and how this edge-case server situation could work just fine over time.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-decentralized-social-media-and-great-twitter-exodus

@ethanschoonover @lawfare @qjurecic @arozenshtein @klonick

What I'd really like to be able to do is have one account on multiple instances; toggle easily between feeds that are specific to each or combine each; and easily choose with a drop-down menu which one I'm, er, 'tooting'

I would genuinely love to be able to easily browse the instance for my city, and easily be found there, and likewise for my profession. Why must I choose?