Eugen RochkoApr 2, 2017
I really, really appreciate seeing so many follows from mastodon.xyz (a different, new instance). When telling your friends about Mastodon, don't always point them to mastodon.social - point them to mastodon.xyz, icosahedron.website, social.tchncs.de, gay.crime.team etc etc
Show threadHishamApr 2, 2017

@Gargron It would be great if the mastodon.social signup screen did that.

Even better if we had a website to the general Mastodon project which we could point people to, that offered signup for various instances.

Show threadwas B (this is my old account)

@hisham_hm @Gargron Gargron, if you want help setting up a landing page or anything, I don't claim to be super skilled, but I'm happy to help.

I'll see if I can get something up on mastadon.social for starters, or maybe someone can help me turn mastadon.social into another instance!

Apr 2, 2017 at 8:02pmAmaroq
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 2, 2017
@b_cavello @hisham_hm If mastadon and mastodon .social were both different instances people would be suuuper confused
Show threadtom hApr 2, 2017
@Gargron @hisham_hm @b_cavello I feel like new people would be a little bit less confused about federation if mastodon the software didn't have the same name as the main instance!
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 2, 2017
@tomharris @b_cavello @hisham_hm This is true and obvious in hindsight. I think I was betting on the .social TLD differentiating it.
Show threadtom hApr 2, 2017
@Gargron @hisham_hm @b_cavello A little mistake only. Considering what a super job you've done on everything else, we'll forgive you :heart:
Show threadKaren CApr 2, 2017
@Gargron @hisham_hm @b_cavello @tomharris Heh. When I was writing Poli's message I literally went, "To make sure people understand I'm welcoming them to the fediverse and not just the instance, I'll say 'welcome to mastodon.social.'" :no_good_tone1:
Show threadMilanApr 2, 2017
@tomharris @b_cavello @hisham_hm @gargron i think this is important so the potencial new user don't have to search for his/her first instance to join to...(have a look at gnusocial)
Show threadwas B (this is my old account)Apr 2, 2017
@milan @Gargron @hisham_hm @tomharris I never played many MMO games, but it's not too uncommon to have a disambiguation screen with server stats, right? Maybe we can make something like that so people can get to less busy instances...
Show threadMilanApr 2, 2017
@b_cavello @tomharris @hisham_hm @gargron i would like it so much to just let my server point to another domain but it would result into federation trouble :sob:
Show threadHishamApr 2, 2017
@Gargron @tomharris @b_cavello @milan wouldn't it be possible to implement something like email forwarding?
Show threadwas B (this is my old account)Apr 2, 2017
@Gargron @hisham_hm Hee hee! It could say "hey, if you wanna log into mastodon head over here" but yeah
😅
Just trying to help distribute the load better
Show threadHishamApr 2, 2017

@b_cavello @Gargron I was thinking more like old email providers which offered you lots of domains to pick in a combo box:

Sign up: [_______]@[_______][v]

People would treat different instances just like email addresses.