Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
The continued growth of mastodon.social is putting the #Fediverse in danger (here's why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/).
The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps & website stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.
If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to all these:
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/568
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023
- https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/1052
Steve's Place@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services When I started here, I looked at a page of servers and wound up choosing the big one. I'm a musician, a programmer, I create video games, and I rant about politics. None of the smaller servers with focuses had that combo. I wondered if talking about other things would be disapproved of. A large, nebulous server seemed right for me to start with.
Later, when I decided to make a private server, I kept the old m.s account to use in power failures. I post new releases on both servers. Although m.s is growing, perhaps a good number of accounts are similarly dormant until needed.
One way to ease entry might be to have a page where a new user checks off their interests, and the closest-fitting instances are offered. They needn't all be mastodon. Servers indicate areas of interest (and also if they welcome general/political/off-topic conversation).
Fwiw, I'm considering opening up my servers to the public next year, should anyone be interested in moderating. Every bit helps, I guess.