I completely agree. I think it's because of the convolution of ... • Aaron Parecki

Darius Kazemi https://social.tinysubversions.com/@darius • Aug 4
I think the idea that a new Mastodon user is supposed to pick an instance based on affinity/interest is the number one thing that prevents people from joining. I think there needs to be a retooling of the messaging to make it about trust.
People don't join email services because of affinity. They do because they trust. They trust Google will be around for a long time. Or that hushmail won't sell their data. Or that Hotmail is easy to use. Etc etc.

I completely agree. I think it's because of the convolution of the account and the instance timeline. If you could just as easily follow an instance timeline from any other instance then all of a sudden it doesn't matter which is your home instance.

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Thu, Aug 9, 2018 8:14am -07:00

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Dien todon.nl/@Dwinkeltje
  
  @aaronpk This I have wished for too. And just generally more centralized information about instances. Perhaps it's out there but as a newbee I've got no clue where to look.
  
  Thu, Aug 9, 2018 5:26pm +00:00
- Darius Kazemi social.tinysubversions.com/@darius
  
  @aaronpk Haha so says another self-hosted instance-of-one user :)
  As an aside, do you experience weird caching things? I do think most beginners should join a populated server because otherwise they are going to be seeing a lot of seemingly-blank profile pages when they click through to profiles of people who are mentioned that their instance hasn't interacted with before
  
  Thu, Aug 9, 2018 3:18pm +00:00

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