2025-12-26 18:09 UTC
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@TheEddieShow@beige.party 2025-12-26 18:13
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de Just because I don't know the answer doesn't mean there isn't a good one. 🤷
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@ikuturso@mastodon.social 2025-12-26 18:17
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de @TheEddieShow@beige.party there doesn't have to be just one that is offered. Other projects have a rotating list that a visitor gets assigned to an item of.
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@jeremyjackson@mastodon.social 2025-12-26 18:27
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de @TheEddieShow@beige.party Yeah, I recall this being a big hurdle for onboarding when people were leaving Twitter. There was also an “it’s like Twitter + Discord” analogy going around (just because of the word “server” 🫠) which only caused further confusion. I’d think if the average person and their friends signed up and all of their server handles were different they’d be confused by that too. Better to have a low barrier of entry with the ability to switch later imo.
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@Lacze@hear-me.social 2025-12-26 22:12
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de @TheEddieShow@beige.party There should be information about a list of others to choose from, or the option to choose between, for example 10 servers.
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social 2025-12-26 23:57
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de @TheEddieShow@beige.party It'd be perfectly technically viable to a) random-assign each new user to one of a smallish pool of larger defaults rather than direct them all to the same default and b) ensure that sign up pages have a "explore other servers" button that's unobtrusive but visible.
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@PursuitOfElysia@urbanists.social 2025-12-27 02:09
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de @TheEddieShow@beige.party the onboarding kept me away for months. Having a regular "sign up" button at a Mastodon domain leading to an all in one way instance browser followed by simple signup and go would be great. We're pretty close there. ALSO! Manual signup approvals are fine, but disclosed front and centre alongside a blurb with average approval time. It took *weeks* for me to get approved, I thought it was broken. Almost missed the welcome email a month later and gave up.