Mastodawn

Spread Mastodon Jun 16, 2023

🔥 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

http://spreadmastodon.com

@[email protected] @fediversereport

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Welcome to your better social home.

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Spread Mastodon Jun 16, 2023

@[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.

http://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/round-robin

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Mike Fraser Jun 16, 2023

@spreadmastodon @[email protected] @fediversereport Over 60k registered users? What the hell's the point? We comply with every single piece of criteria except we'll never be at 60k users, ever, but we serve our geographical area very well. Why don't you run the user through a wizard and then generate a list of instances that have opted in with detailed descriptions? You could make one of the questions user count. This approach does nothing.

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CrazyMyra Jun 16, 2023

@mike @spreadmastodon @[email protected] @fediversereport
Fully behind Mike's point here. Our instance isn't regional, but it's one of the few mainly dedicated to the sort of content you used to find on "Funny Twitter" (ie jokes, memes, shitposting, etc). With just a couple of hundred members, we're never going to be a "recommended" instance on size. And, because few of us use hashtags - there's no better way to indicate you're not funny than putting #/funny on every post - it's difficult to find us.
Initiatives like this are accidentally designed to exclude a lot.

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Spread Mastodon Jun 16, 2023

@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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Mike Fraser

@spreadmastodon @OutOnTheMoors @[email protected] @fediversereport Maybe MAU to registered user ratio on servers over 100 registered users? I think it really comes down to the wizard for onboarding. Questions designed to drill down on region, hobbies, interests, then present options that represent the input. Some people want a small well defined community, others want to get lost in a crowd. Also moderation style has a big part to play.