We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.
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The Default Server Recommendations experiment is a first step in reimagining how Mastodon onboarding & server discovery work.
Our team’s intent is to work with the community to build new onboarding pathways that support the entire network.
We can’t wait to get started
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@Mastodon
I really enjoy this news wich will make the Fediverse healthier and more resilient in my opinion.
Thank you.
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@FediTips you should boost this to the admins of servers you have recommended on http://fedi.garden
I've posted about this on my other account @homegrown which is for people who run their own servers, and boosted it on here to get it a bit more visible. Hopefully that gets the word out to admins
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oh and also, for #Ukraine
: @mluts @twiukraine @alex @mastodon @Shizanit @insiderua@social.odessa.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.kharkiv.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.lviv.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.rivne.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.poltava.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.kherson.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.mykolayiv.dcomm.net.ua @insiderua@social.khmelnytskyi.dcomm.net.ua @noleron @max -
If you’re interested in participating in this experiment, please let us know by filling out the form that this QR code points too.
(sorry it’s in Google docs)
https://forms.gle/7uRui5VnMPfEYAgq8
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@Mastodon Please switch from G***** docs or give us an alternative.
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@Mastodon Awesome! The other issue is “filling up the feed”, right? Bluesky’s feeds to follow are nice, but we got hashtags here. Maybe when people sign up, you also give them a nice (and attractively presented) list of hashtags to follow???
LEAN IN on that old school spirit and people feeds will fill up right away!!!
@renwillis well, there's the trending timeline, too (already recommending accounts and hashtags).
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How about also interest based?
There are some for special interests
Like punkstodon.de for punk music, metalhead.club for metal heads, infosec.exchange for tech security interested people and so on.
So just the region is maybe too less?
At least it's something to be considered after the first iteration -
"We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start."
And here is the core symptom of the core problem itself:
You're pointing the question and its solution right back at the Deathstar Mothership itself: @Mastodon dot Social
Sort of a recursive, self-fulfilling loop, no?
But not the least bit surprising
@FinchHaven@sfba.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social this is literally official mastodon profile. Is this really shocking they are on mastodon.social?
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We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.
Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start.
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@Mastodon I hope international boundaries will be taken into consideration. Many mobile apps (such as dating apps) use geographical proximity, and it’s not helpful where I live, as preference is given to a rather hostile neighbouring country over the nearest cities in my own country.
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@Mastodon why is geography important?
@WestLawns@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social its so Poles can get recommended Polish instances, Germans German instances etc etc
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@Mastodon Since you say Sorry it's in google docs, why don't use other tools?
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@renwillis well, there's the trending timeline, too (already recommending accounts and hashtags).
@sunnythesheep @Mastodon trending isn’t bad, but that’s not “my feed” / “my timeline” and it’s been a major complaint about mastodon when I chat with folks who gave up. An empty feed.
Hashtags essentially work the same as the Bluesky feeds to follow. They are just “topics”. Hit folks with a list of The Big Ones they can follow and get that feed going!
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Danke! Haben Interesse bekundet.
@mainz_sozial_digital
Mainz meine Perle!
Holt mal die stadtverwaltung auf eure instance, ist ja peinlich wie die auf mastodon.social rumdümpeln…GaLiGrü und weiter so mit der guten Arbeit!
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@andypiper @Mastodon Okay.
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Starting now, we’re recruiting general purpose servers with open sign-ups. To be eligible, servers must:
- Run default Mastodon (for now)
- Agree to the Server Covenant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans4/6
@Mastodon Open sign-ups? Won't we just get spam from more servers? (Most of our reports are of mastodon.social accounts for this reason).
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We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.
Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start.
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Would you please like to focus your attention on the issue of encryption, please. Currently you are building a network with servers that do not encrypt user data and do not offer e2ee for private messages. This will explode into a gigantic privacy catastrophe when Mastodon will get it´s endless November, so these heavy design issues must be solved before that.
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We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.
Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start.
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@Mastodon Geographically by server location or by area served? Cause in some cases that's pretty wildly different.
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@Mastodon Please switch from G***** docs or give us an alternative.
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We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.
Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start.
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Noo, send form!
