Brutkey

Julian Fietkau
@julian@fietkau.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org The one time someone asked me how to figure out which Mastodon server they used to sign up, and then actually stuck with the conversation, I asked them to look up the email, and they told me they don't keep emails going back far enough. 😄 But yeah, it can work in principle.

prunelier
@prunelier@mastodon.social

@julian@fietkau.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org
The notion of "server "is unknown for a random new user. How could they remember its name ?

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@prunelier@mastodon.social @julian@fietkau.social @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org

The new user will learn, the same way they learn the integral features on Twitter or Tiktok or Instagram or whatever. Those social networks are always adding new features that people didn't know before, but people get used to them.

Servers are an integral part of why the Fediverse exists. Without them, the Fedi has no reason to exist at all. It's better to explain them instead of trying to centralise the network.