Brutkey

wil
@wil@beige.party

@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.

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Manda
@lucyruthe@mastodon.social

@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.


Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@lucyruthe@mastodon.social @wil@beige.party

Ahh yeah, the JoinMastodon website is not great for this at all. That is a really excellent point! For some reason they just link to the signup pages and don't make clear how to see the main website front pages.

That's why on the
https://fedi.garden website I do link to the servers' websites' front pages, so you can see all their info directly.

wil
@wil@beige.party

@lucyruthe@mastodon.social Ah, I see. That is definitely an onboarding issue that needs to be addressed.

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@wil@beige.party @lucyruthe@mastodon.social

Indeed, this is a serious problem, it's great that Manda raised it.

I have reported this by opening an issue at
https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/1051

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@wil@beige.party @lucyruthe@mastodon.social

Indeed, this is a serious problem, it's great that Manda raised it.

I have reported this by opening an issue at
https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/1051