Do you have a friend or family member who is not on Mastodon?
And you are thinking, "love to introduce them, but the whole multiple servers thing... 🤔"
Well, you are in luck.
A new site makes joining Mastodon a snap >>> https://spreadmastodon.org/
In minutes, #newbies will be up and running on mastodon.social (other instances coming soon).
@spreadmastodon has been developed by @tchambers and his team, so you know it's safe to recommend.
Let's do this!
@bengo @mastodonmigration @spreadmastodon
For the sign up we have SSL, and for the site we have privacy policies, etc. And that sign up never sees our server, goes right to the server they are created on.
Happy to add more language to make that clearer if you think that helps.
For the "Enhance your account" we do ask for authentication, but it's entirely optional, and all is under the same privacy policy, etc, and its entirely optional.
@tchambers @mastodonmigration @spreadmastodon adding language would mitigate (remember to use a unique password for this site! or a password manager)
It wasn't clear to me exactly what the 'enhance your account' value prop was so that's why it felt surprising to be asked for a password
@bengo @tchambers @mastodonmigration
No the new account is not ours. Initially it is at Mastodon.social but with an easier sign up, and we are looking to replace that with a sign up to a round robin. of a good number of other trusted, reputable, well run, third party mastodon servers.
@spreadmastodon @tchambers @mastodonmigration awesome. I like how it's signing up on a separate place.
Ideally from an end-user security perspective they would only have to type their password in on a web page on mastodon.social in that case
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