@madeindex Many people (including me) on the fediverse keep complaining that mastodon.social has too many users (> 200000), which contradicts the defederated nature of the fediverse (some of the problems of that is that it hinders in moderation and that the admins of mastodon.social have a lot of power given their position of the admin of 200000 people).
@zvavybir It feels to me like the power is already in their hands. #Mastodon gGmbH maintains the #GitHub project and https://joinmastodon.org.
Have you & the others who believe this tried to raise the issue with them?
A simple solution to increase signup on other #servers would be to remove the "Join mastodon.social" button on the official¹ #website and instead display a full list of servers.
the reason i didn't use mastodon until fairly recently is the 'server' thing which is useless to me
i don't want multiple choices
i want one place to interact
glad i found mastodon social because i won't use a zuck, musk or dorsey product
Musk & Dorsey Zuck@samiamsam @madeindex This is an interesting perspective! I'm too interested at such stuff to imagine on my own that someone might not, but of course such people exist. The conclusion of this is that we have to change the sign-up process that there is no choices-fatigue.
(BTW, the server thing is not useless to you. I know it's boring technical stuff, but the reason Gargon is not as evil as zuck, musk or dorsey is *because* there are other servers.)