Tech media is picking up on the changes to Mastodon’s sign up process, where the default option is now Mastodon.social. I don’t think funneling more people to one mega-instance is a good idea…
Tech media is picking up on the changes to Mastodon’s sign up process, where the default option is now Mastodon.social. I don’t think funneling more people to one mega-instance is a good idea…
It’s not. The sign-up process needs to be simplified, sure, and some “default” options need to be presented to the people trying to join, but focusing on one mega-instance is simply dangerous and goes against the whole idea of decentralization.
Well, I blogged about just that: https://rys.io/en/168.html