🔥 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.
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Brian Lawson