@jeff Definitely one of the better suggestions I read today 👍

@jeff onboarding is the Achilles Heel of Mastodon. There needs to be a better portal because "CHOOSE A SERVER" is not a phrase regular folks will respond well to.

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@jeff Also need to invest in additional server capacity. #TwitterMigration

@jeff SLYTHERIN

@jeff Or a migration tool that you authorize to connect to Twitter. It uses a tool like FediFinder to find your follows and assigns you to the server where most of your follows are (and open to registration). Then, automatically populates your profile, imports your follows, and updates your Twitter bio with your new Mastodon handle.

@jeff entering this place and its servers is like being born into a religion by virtue of birth. By the time you realise you may be in the wrong bus.. the ship has set sail. To rebel and start again is too much effort.

@jeff That's a great idea!

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Back in my day you joined a random instance from the list because mastodon.social was full, and you pretended it was good!

*yells at cloud*

@jeff genius.

@jeff Need!

@jeff love this idea! so many struggling with "picking" a server!

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and all the TERFs go to slytherin (where we suspend federation).

@jeff This almost exists ;-) https://instances.social/

@jeff I will get sent to the bad one. I just know it.

@jeff - What is the etiquette of sharing posts/quotes/ideas offsite via screencap? I'm a twitugee and I'd like not to get banned in my first week.

@jeff omg yes!!

@jeff oh I love this 😅

@jeff alright so who's creating this genius idea?

@jeff that seems the intention of https://instances.social/, though I don't completely understand its conclusions or which instances are in the running.

@jeff yes please!

@jeff Good idea, how would you propose designing such a system? Would it go off of post history, previous liked content, something else, or perhaps a combination of multiple?