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Oliver 👔

@luana @mrhamel @Mastodon It's the entry for newbies, people do Look around after a while. I barely see users using the official app who are around for >1yr.
For those who arrive, after all the stories I've read from strangers at the bird site, this decision was urgently needed.

1 May 2023 at 23:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on die-partei.social
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j.r

@oliver @luana @mrhamel @Mastodon but one could have gone the way of selecting a random server for example, if the user does not want to decide, but no, they all have to land on the single biggest instance, what could possibly go wrong...

2 May 2023 at 8:53 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
Oliver 👔

@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.
In addition, you would then have the problem if, for example, Japanese-speaking users land on an instance that is used by 95% of German-speaking people.
Personally, I think it's fine that there is this instance for newbies.

2 May 2023 at 9:00 | Open on die-partei.social
j.r

@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...

2 May 2023 at 9:06 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
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