Excited to share our community vision for @Mastodon today: we are for the people.
This year our focus is on ensuring everyone can have a safe and fun experience on #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline, and doing more to support and celebrate the diverse servers running #Mastodon, its forks, and every #Fediverse application out there.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/mastodon-is-for-the-people/
@haubles
Hopefully, the onboarding process will be revised so that @Mastodon is no longer the only default instance to choose from, but just one of many options that new users are guided through in a short guided tour of the app when they first create an account, in order to determine their interests and needs and ultimately offer them one or a maximum of three instances to register with, based on the previous evaluation.
This would be truly transparent and would further improve the decentralisation of Mastodon, instead of always directing everyone to just one instance, as has been the case up to now.
#MastodonSocial #MastodonOnline #Mastodon #Fediverse #Transparency #Decentralization #Onboarding
First, we’re sharing a couple of new resources for the #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline communities. They are part of our new Help Centre. These are living resources! If you have feedback or questions about them, let us know.
@haubles Good on you for taking on such a task. Writing documentation for newcomers must be quite a daunting mountain to look at. Every step forward is a step towards the top!
@wordsmith onward, together 💞
In particular, I’m excited about our new library of tutorials, which we’re building to help anyone get up to speed on how to use #Mastodon.
What things do you find confusing on here? Let me know, and we’ll see about getting a tutorial added :)
https://help.joinmastodon.org/collection/1-support-tutorials
I'm also thrilled to share an important resource for our community: Community Standards.
This resource expands on the #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline server rules, to help clarify what is and isn't allowed on our servers. Let us know what you think.
https://help.joinmastodon.org/article/12-community-standards
I'm equally—maybe even more—excited about another resource in our Help Centre.
#Fediquette: A Community Etiquette Guide
Our community is full of passionate people who care deeply about improving accessibility and respecting consent. This resource will help newcomers to understand our cultural norms here in the #fediverse and #SocialWeb.
https://help.joinmastodon.org/article/13-fediquette-community-etiquette-guide
Looking beyond Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online, our big project to support the Mastodon network of #fediverse servers this year is a series of experiments to replace the `join mastodon.social` button with a button that recommends a server running default Mastodon from an opt-in pool that we will be hand-selecting to start.
We're also going to work on the #ServerDirectory this year.
This starts with moving the directory to a new pull-request-based system so admins can submit, update, or remove entries themselves.
Another change we want to make is to add more and new ways to “classify” different types of servers including demographics, interests, and geographic regions.
Once we have that kind of information, we can start to explore new ways to incorporate it into the onboarding process. Stay tuned...
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