We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.

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@Mastodon

@mainz_sozial_digital könnte interessant sein?

@colinstu it says "general purpose servers". So no special interests servers or topical servers are gonna be able to participate in this feature (at the moment).

@haubles That sounds very good, I didn't know that it's technically possible. Great!

@Mastodon

@Mastodon send!

@martijn @Mastodon already filled out when a fellow admin wrote about it 👌

@stux @Mastodon send data?!

@nitrml @colinstu

This experiment will be for general purpose servers only, but we'll be looking into running other onboarding experiments—including for special interest servers—soon.

@Mastodon ideally combined with personal interests, right? (as long as there are enough servers to choose from) 😎🌈👩‍💻🌳

@aral

I feel like by asking this question you're — inadvertently — legitimizing zionism by implying that the conflation of antisemitism with antizionism is a credible definition of that word.

Personally, I assume that antisemitism means antisemitism unless I have reason to believe otherwise.

@OctaviaConAmore @Mastodon

For this experiment, that is correct. We are looking to partner with servers that have open sign-ups. But we've heard the feedback that spam is going to be a big issue for many servers to participate, so our team is going to discuss what we can do about that next week.

@potatoes_fall It’s not a credible definition of the word but it is a *legally accepted* one in certain jurisdictions and it is essential that we know what is meant – in this specific context – by a term that is so widely and so willfully misunderstood so we understand what exactly the effects of this initiative will be and whether we should be in support of it or in opposition to it.

@sunnythesheep @Mastodon for this experiment we are looking to partner with general-purpose servers. But this is just one experiment, not the only experiment! We’ll be looking at how we can help with special-interest server discovery soon.

@Mastodon It's amazing seeing these sorts of things play out across the Fediverse. Making sure we make a better internet that is centered around Privacy and staying decentralized for all.

Keep up the good work and can't wait to see where we all are in several years to come.

@rzeta0 @Mastodon What do you mean? The idea would be to give people a server that is in the area they are living. If you live in Germany you have apply to it's legal jurisdiction.

But I don't really see how German law is particular more / less problematic when choosing a mastodon server.

@Mastodon

"We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start."

And here is the core symptom of the core problem itself:

You're pointing the question and its solution right back at the Deathstar Mothership itself: @Mastodon dot Social

Sort of a recursive, self-fulfilling loop, no?

But not the least bit surprising

@admin @Mastodon hey! The only thing to do for now is make sure you’re meeting these eligibility requirements:

- Run default Mastodon (for now)
- Agree to the Server Covenant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans

Besides that, stay tuned!

@potatoes_fall Also see this follow-up: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115989944734933868

@mainz_sozial_digital @system @allmaechd @nrw.social @bawue.social @berlin.social @norden.social @sueden.social @bonndigital

@aral 🙄🙄🙄

@Mastodon

@potatoes_fall @Mastodon

Danke! Haben Interesse bekundet.