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@Mastodon Thanks for the new "onboarding experience" that NOBODY wanted!!

Growth above all!
1 May 2023 at 17:05 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.arclight.pro
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fidepus
Stanford

@fidepus @Mastodon A lot of people wanted mastodon.social to become the default instance?

I must miss the requests, and the people requesting it must have missed sharing their opinion in the bug report complaining about it.

Even the positive voices there are more like, "Easier onboarding yes, but not like this"

1 May 2023 at 20:10 | Open on social.arclight.pro
fidepus

@stanford @Mastodon See, that’s the thing. People who need an easy and stable entry point to Mastodon don’t know or care what a bug report is and they will never have a voice here, if it doesn’t become much, much easier to join.
If you want this network to become more than an echo chamber full of meta posts, you need to stop the gatekeeping.

1 May 2023 at 20:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Stanford

@fidepus @Mastodon I have noting about an easier onboarding.

But not by building a monopoly-like instance. This just goes against the whole philosophy of the fediverse.

1 May 2023 at 20:31 | Open on social.arclight.pro
fidepus

@stanford @Mastodon What’s the alternative? Sending new users to a random instance with five people on it that’s going to close down in two weeks because the admin lost interest?

1 May 2023 at 20:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Stanford

@fidepus @Mastodon Well, as Eugen just pushed it through without even giving people a chance to discuss it or share their opinion about it, we probably will never know what the result would have become.

There are ideas; for example, they have a well-curated list of instances at joinmastodon.org; why not use it?

There are many other instances out there which have a solid administration, some clubs/associations etc.
I never said just to push users to any random instance with five users. The App didn't did that before, either.

But this is not the right time and place to discuss this.
I don't really have the energy to argue against silly straw man fallacies either.

But even if this would be the one and only option to make a user-friendly experience, just pushing it through and ignoring any community feedback is not the way to do it. If this had been a community decision, it might be easier to accept for many people.

@fidepus @Mastodon Well, as Eugen just pushed it through without even giving people a chance to discuss it or share their opinion about it, we probably will never know what the result would have become.

There are ideas; for example, they have a well-curated list of instances at joinmastodon.org; why not use it?

1 May 2023 at 21:03 | Open on social.arclight.pro
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