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@luana @mrhamel @Mastodon As each instance is a separate service provider with different policies and regulations (depending on hosting location and nationality of the owner), I can imagine Mastodon gGmbH doesnโt want the legal trouble of automatically directing people to instances outside of their control. The curated server list and account migration is still available, but then the responsibility lies with the user.   We shouldn't want to be like Apple, Google or Microsoft anyway. We're different and proud of it. Right? @IAmDannyBoling @luana @Mastodon All depends on how you want to gain adoption. Adding friction by making a user select from a myriad of unknown servers would make the process all the more difficult. That new user may not know the admin/moderation team, and their account could disappear tomorrow without a trace. Mastodon is not novice friendly. I'll repeat: Nobody is "adding" friction. It's already there. And it hasn't prevented millions of people from signing up. Could it be made easier? Probably. But if it's done like Big Tech wants it done, THAT will assuredly kill Mastodon. @vi @luana @Mastodon @mrhamel @peterkal @luana @Mastodon @mrhamel @vi In my case, I was not able to set up the redirect from my banned account, so what I could export was the list of people I followed, but not my followers (or properly, I could export a csv list of them too, but no way to say 'hey, I've moved' and they're still following the old account instance) I don't see an easy solution here @luana @mrhamel @Mastodon  @jr @luana @mrhamel @Mastodon Different instances have different sets of rules. With Matrix, I also had the experience that others have had here as well: Overnight, the domain and thus the account including content was gone. @oliver @luana @mrhamel @Mastodon yeah I mean you could have gone not totally random, but joinmastodon.org already has a list, that know technically more or less okay servers with interest fields and language. So you could have just asked the user for their primary post language and what stuff they are interested in and select a random server from the list based on this facts... @IAmDannyBoling @luana @Mastodon What's more important to you, the ease of adoption into the ActivityPub federation, or decentralization to the point that the platform is unusable by anyone but geeks and nerds? Nobody's asking for it to become /more/ decentralized. It's fine just like it is, and apparently that's not a problem for millions of users who aren't geeks or nerds. |
@mrhamel @Mastodon None of those companies were made with decentralization in mind