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 The "official" @Mastodon app now sends new users to overloaded megaservers by default. Don't use the official app, and don't recommend it to new users. It's turning into a dedicated mastodon.social app, and isn't good general Mastodon experience, by design. 15 comments
@tek onboarding is perhaps the most important part of a good social network. It can make or break a potential user. I don’t think Mastodon app providing an easy way to onboard people is a bad thing. You shouldn’t have to be too technical or savvy to enjoy a new potential social network. I get the idea of many servers but I would be lying if it didn’t make this experience a bit sour. User friendliness will always win. Imagine that Google made an email app called "Email" that hid other email servers than their own unless you went looking for them. That's how I feel about a mastodon.social client being called "Mastodon".  @tek I feel like there maybe shouldn’t be a project official app at all, but given there is and how much noise there is about how complicated “joining mastodon” is for newcomers, I kind of understand this choice. Hoping they will change it to be some rotating selection of “general” topic servers with prominent ability to choose others and more guidance for folks to migrate elsewhere once they “get” it.  @tek I thought the Mastodon client connects to any Mastodon instance? At least it does that for me.  @tek @TheQuinbox @Mastodon I notice that @MonaApp has "mastodon.social" filled in the server address field, to. It's easy enough to erase that and insert another address. I suppose, if I grabbed one of these clients, started anew, and didn't know better, I'd go with it. Maybe these things should offer a server list, if you say you're new to Mastodon? Maybe a searchable or auto-complete thing, where you enter key words, say, referring to an interest? |
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I use Tusky a lot as it has some features I quite like such as the ability to easily flip between different accounts.
Don't know what the onboarding is like for it at the moment.
I kinda get having something other than an empty field for server name as I hear that people get daunted by the whole 'pick an instance ' thing.
Obviously we know it mostly doesn't matter, but when don't know then you don't know.
Perhaps select from a handful of servers
@tek @Mastodon
I use Tusky a lot as it has some features I quite like such as the ability to easily flip between different accounts.
Don't know what the onboarding is like for it at the moment.
I kinda get having something other than an empty field for server name as I hear that people get daunted by the whole 'pick an instance ' thing.
Obviously we know it mostly doesn't matter, but when don't know then you don't know.