Back in the year 2022 when the Twitter Migration was happening —
I asked people on Twitter who tried to join Mastodon but gave up — WHY they gave up
By far, the most common complaint I heard was — picking a server instance
It seem like a very important decision that they weren't prepared or ready to make that blocked them from joining Mastodon
They didn't understand it. And, they didn't want to do it. So they gave up
Back then I imagined one way this could have been solved.
The Mastodon team tried to solve this by onboarding new users onto mastodon.social by default.
However, I imagined people not creating accounts at first, but instead just subscribing to people's outboxes — all done on the client side, so they didn't have to choose a server instance.
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114070142883326241
Using ActivityPub outboxes like RSS / Atom / WebFeeds.
> So what you get instead is discovery by divine accident: No algorithmic curation. No fediverse-wide trending topics. No “here’s what’s buzzing.”
That's good. Great even. You get true virality. When something gets boosted 500+ times it's because it's actually good, and not because it got fed to every eyeball repeatedly due to some arcane engagement prediction metric. There is nothing to replace it with, the best way to do it is to not do anything.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
