Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@julian@fietkau.social
Telling people to sign up on mastodon.social and then punishing them for signing up on mastodon.social is (with all due respect) not a good idea. It will make people feel gaslighted by Mastodon and put them off the network completely.
Encouraging people to choose a different server to begin with and helping them to do this is innately the most effective way to spread growth out. We know this because it worked when they did this.
Julian Fietkau@julian@fietkau.social
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services It isn't a punishment if m.s can be conceptualized as a transitionary tutorial server. Kind of a “Great Plateau” of Mastodon, if you've played Zelda BOTW.
I think there can be a design where it feels natural to have an area that people are expected to leave once they get their training wheels off, especially if the migration process is improved to include posts, update conversation threads, contain fewer UI steps, etc.