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

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@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.

@Mastodon Igual esto le interesa a @rober para añadir a Masto punto es

@Mastodon Awesome! The other issue is “filling up the feed”, right? Bluesky’s feeds to follow are nice, but we got hashtags here. Maybe when people sign up, you also give them a nice (and attractively presented) list of hashtags to follow???

LEAN IN on that old school spirit and people feeds will fill up right away!!!

@stux I bet they were just waiting for you haha

@Mastodon It sounds really good, especially to avoid overcrowd Mastodon official servers and strengthen the Fediverse philosophy!

@sebzuen @Mastodon

Yeah! Merci! Das hab ich schon lange gesucht.

@simzie Cool! Ich benutze bisher die main instance komplett auf französisch, was eine nette challenge ist – vlt. ist framaforms selfhostable?!
Aber ich sehe du sprichst FR, dann sollte das für dich ja kein problem sein ◡̈

@Mastodon
How about also interest based?
There are some for special interests
Like punkstodon.de for punk music, metalhead.club for metal heads, infosec.exchange for tech security interested people and so on.
So just the region is maybe too less?
At least it's something to be considered after the first iteration

@Mastodon Since you say Sorry it's in google docs, why don't use other tools?

@Mastodon Можно выпустить в тг подарок , который можно будет получить при подтверждении ак ,в мастодонте .

Хотя не знаю почему ещё не выпустили свою же крипту, 🤔

You can issue a gift in tg , which can be received upon confirmation of the ak , in mastodon .

Although I don't know why they haven't released their own crypt yet,

@Mastodon
I really enjoy this news wich will make the Fediverse healthier and more resilient in my opinion.
Thank you.
🥳 ♥️

@gbargoud

I've posted about this on my other account @homegrown which is for people who run their own servers, and boosted it on here to get it a bit more visible. Hopefully that gets the word out to admins 🙂