Brutkey

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/

Bruce Elrick
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca

@julian@fietkau.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Hmmm... This is encouraging... My journey in a simple email search:

Julian Fietkau
@julian@fietkau.social

@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @FediTips@social.growyourown.services Yeah, I have a reply about this somewhere downthread. Searching up the email is a (high-friction but workable) individual solution if someone has forgotten their server and is willing to put a few minutes of effort into regaining access, it's not a good solution to the overall problem of people not remebering their server. At the very least it's a hassle each time.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@julian@fietkau.social @virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca

"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."

If you signed up to a Mastodon server, the email will contain the word "mastodon" even if the server is called something else.

"At the very least it's a hassle each time."

How often will people forget the name of their server?