@Mastodon do you mean entirely open sign-ups (i.e. prone to spam accounts) or accepting sign-ups that get manually approved by a human?

@fluffykittycat @growfediverse @GossiTheDog ideally, yes, but a lot of people nowadays want to be where everyone is, so the direction sorry of end up flipped from what you described: of we can get them to try fedi, they may find a community they feel comfortable in which they can eventually move closer to

I wish it wasn't that way, but I think we have to meet people where they are in a lot of ways

@growfediverse @fluffykittycat @GossiTheDog honestly, the thing I've seen he most is decision paralysis if we can get someone on Fedi anywhere, that's 90% of the battle and they can slowly learn from there at their own pace