Julian Fietkau@julian@fietkau.social
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I feel like when people ask for randomly assigned servers, there's a strange forgetfulness about which specific problem the default server was meant to solve.
Among people who signed up in 2022, the biggest reason (by far!) why people involuntarily left – that is, wanted to keep using Mastodon but failed to – was that they changed phones or browsers or just wanted to sign in on another device, and couldn't because they didn't know what server they were on.
Bruce Elrick@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca
@julian@fietkau.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Is the sign-up email for a single software such as Mastodon predictable/regular enough that 80% of those cases could be solved by advising people to search for some text in their email?
Like if the default sign-up email contained "Mastodon" and when server admins customized it, there would naturally be a low chance they'd edit it radically enough to remove that word.
Or similarly, if a convention was established to include the word "fediverse", would that help?
/shrug/
