 Mastodon improving the onboard experience is great. The wannabe fedi-police will be out in force against a default instance i’ve no doubt and I’ve already seen numerous complaints about it. It’s not “growth for the sake of growth” or against the idea of decentralisation. It’s just a small basic change to improve the flow for new people to get people started. Good stuff. Also quote toots coming, yay! 12 comments
It most definitely IS a challenge to decentralisation. Feels a bit Animal Farm actually. No quote toots good, quote toots better! @gamingonlinux Yeah, it's not like you're forever locked in to mastodon.social. Its *super* easy to migrate to new instances. I started out on mastodon.social, and I've moved instances a few times. Not too excited about quoting, but eh, maybe I'll come to appreciate it later?  @gamingonlinux I don't think onboarding is a big problem, but I do think they could have handled onboarding in a better way. It's also very clear that they're not really paying attention to feedback, what with this Github issue having over 400 upvotes: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023 @flit people going to github to moan and vote don’t represent the majority of users @gamingonlinux Does it have to be the majority of users? That's their communication channel, they ought to look at it if they recommend that people go there to give feedback @gamingonlinux It's all good news no matter what others say. They can still move to a different server after they sign up. And quote-posts will make it easier to add context to other posts. @gamingonlinux Ive been saying for ages, if mastodon wants to be a mainstrameam platform it neeeeds to default new users to a specific instance!   > Also quote toots coming, yay! |
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@gamingonlinux tbh, depends on the changes. some can definitely be anti-decentralization if, for example, signups are automatically sent to mastodon.social, etc. that said, do you know where i might be able to read about some of these upcoming changes?