🔥 We are excited to let everyone know that our full website is now live!
We hope this will be an easy way for new users to get started with #Mastodon & join the wider #Fediverse & an organizing hub to build & spread a better, more open social web of ALL fediverse offerings.
With the #RedditMigration in full force & the likely #Barcelona launch bringing new attention to the Fediverse it is all the more urgent to help #TakeBackSocial
@[email protected] @fediversereport
As we did before for this site, we are “building in public” & in stages.
So while our tool for sign-ups now points to mastodon.social for NOW we propose this round-robin plan. Give us feedback.
We think this model will work for any Mastodon/Fedi onboarding for apps and portals.
Principles of it could be adapted for places like #calkey, #kbin, #peertube, #joinfediverse & others...to balance the ease of sign-ups to decentralization.
@spreadmastodon @[email protected] @fediversereport
I’m not a huge fan of the “make the big sites bigger” approach, even with the round Robin. I understand that lowers the barrier to entry for newbies, but I also think that raising awareness about specialized or regional instances is an important part of Federation.
@brian @[email protected] @fediversereport
đź‘Ť Very up for suggestions as to how the round robin proposal could include X number of mid-range servers that meed the other requirements.
And we are opening up the full source here and would welcome multi-language versions of this site and all the tools, including the onboarding tool.
@spreadmastodon @[email protected] @fediversereport
I respect the compromise that the official app has made for its sign-ups. There is a default “click here to sign up for a big one” button, which could be your round robin choice. But then a “Find another server” option with sorting by different criteria and categories.
Bonus points: even better than the Mastodon app’s flow would be some explanation about why someone might want to consider going one way or the other.
@brian @[email protected] @fediversereport
Yes it could.
The goal of this site is to incite ideas like that for every onboarding solution for the Fediverse.
@mike @[email protected] @fediversereport
Hi @mike - would definitely be up for Canadian.social to be in a future round robin.
The initial set of 60K registered users was just a stab objective metrics for high capacity servers. Very up for suggestions to move that down to numbers that would hit solid but mid-level serves as well.
And welcome exactly this feedback.
@mike @[email protected] @fediversereport
✊ 👍 -- All good!
I agree with @mike and @CrazyMyra that the 60K limit's problmeatic and with @brian about the problems of the "make the big sites bigger" approach. What's really needed is a series of questions that matches people to an instance where they're likely to have a good initial experience -- good moderation as a minimum bar, and beyond that based on geography, interests, or diversity. Sending everybody to .social is likely to be counter-productive.
@jdp23 @mike @brian @[email protected] @fediversereport
Taking notes on all this, thanks! Definitely will update the MAU and registered users numbers, but want to think more about what still ensures high capacity in an objective way. Up for suggestions to those numbers.
@spreadmastodon @jdp23 @mike @[email protected] @fediversereport
“what still ensures high capacity in an objective way. Up for suggestions to those numbers.”
I’m probably just dense, but I’m not grocking why there needs to be an arbitrary number of users to define high capacity. There are sites that report metrics on the uptime of instances, which seems to be a better measure than number of users.
@spreadmastodon @jdp23 @mike @[email protected] @fediversereport
Saying it another way: I think the ultimate goal is to get a new user attached to the right instance. If they don’t know or care, then fine, go to .social. But if they have specific niche interests, then helping to guide them towards options is in support of “getting them attached to the right instance.”
tl;dr - best fit > server size
@spreadmastodon @[email protected] @fediversereport A few suggestions:
Sports should be follow category. There is a super active sports community on Mastodon.
Hockey is missing from your sports hashtag topics. This is an unforgivable sin. #HNOM
I picked some follow categories went to the next step and automatically followed a a bunch of people. Maybe an intermediary step asking if you want to follow these people?
Great first steps!
@mike @[email protected] @fediversereport
Which top accounts would you recommend for sports? Our goal here was:
1. not bots or no Twitter cross-posting accounts with no human involved
2. Actively and regularly posting on topic
@OutOnTheMoors @mike @[email protected] @fediversereport
Very up for ideas on how to add new metrics to allow mid-sized but high capacity servers to the round robin for sure!
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Brian Lawson
Mike Fraser
Jon (now at neuromatch.social)
indri
CrazyMyra