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Please direct your friends to joinmastodon.org or another instance of your choice like octodon.social, toot.cat or toot.cafe, etc. mastodon.social is "default" choice for a lot of people and it's getting kinda hammered right now.
@Gargron The problem is, the descriptions of available choices are confusing to a lot of folk - it may be time for a newbie primer?
@LAGilman
have you tried https://instances.social/
and found it confusing?
@paulfree14 Yes. There was a lot of information, but very little context.
@LAGilman
what context is it that you are missing?
this is the landingpage we hope to direct people to:
joinmastodon.org
it explains what mastodon.
instance.social is linked on that page to let you help to find an instance you like.
@LAGilman @Gargron This. It would also be awesome to have something that helps narrow the choices. "I am a professional writer who also wants to see horse stuff" would be nice, and having to create a new account every time is prone to causing issues once the population rises. I'd love to have my name across everything, but that means joining everything immediately.