@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
I don't like feeling like it's a gated community.
It gives me gross.
I completely understand kicking out spambots and bad actors, but I want to be able to look around and explore right away. Not wait and see if I get approved without any idea of how long it might take.
On the internet, even a day is too long and I'll go find something else.
There have been a number of platforms in the past where you couldn't join without an invite. No thanks. Exclusive clubs are not my jam.
@lucyruthe@mastodon.social Does this happen often? I've never yet run into a mastodon instance that I couldn't explore.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@wil@beige.party
Could you explore it before you created an account? If so, that should be a landing page for us new guys.
I felt like I had to sign up somewhere before I knew how anything worked.
Not sure what you mean about "often." You only sign up at the beginning.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@lucyruthe@mastodon.social Absolutely. When I go to a instance's website, I can see their feed as well as read their various policies.
This is what I see when I go to your instance, and then what I see if I click on "live feeds." And I can scroll down and see more.
I'm a mod at another instance and I often go look at instances when there's been a report, to see if the place overall is shady.
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@wil@beige.party @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Okay you guys, but this is what I found a year ago when I first joined up:
https://joinmastodon.org/
And this is what the pick a server button led to:
https://joinmastodon.org/servers
If I was supposed to know how to dig deeper to find the information you are now talking about, I didn't even know where to look.
For real, it feels like you need to sign up before you know how to research the options.
@wil@beige.party @lucyruthe@mastodon.social
Yeah, you can browse the public contents of any server that has its public timeline open (which most of them do, because it only shows public posts so there isn't any privacy compromise).
Manda
wil