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An overdue blog post about the finances and other news from the .world

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[โ€“] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mastodon.social dominates for one simple reason. The Mastodon gGmbH app now defaults to mastodon.social sign ups.

Selecting instances was confusing the shit out of people, so they relented and simplified the signup process.

[โ€“] imperator3733@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's unfortunate.

Instead of requiring an insurance selection or defaulting to one specific instance, perhaps they could have a handful of moderate/large instances that the app randomly selects between when a user signs up. That would spread out the signups from people who don't understand the instances.

[โ€“] ruud@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's the plan. But determining which instances are suitable isn't easy.. I'll ask them what's the status on this.