@FediTips

I just noticed this post now after I mentioned about the mobile app. Was it a recent change that there is a button that takes you to mastodon.social on the website?

It's been years since I was on the Fediverse, so yeah.

Either way, my point still stand. A button that takes you directly to mastodon.social, is a bad solution to onboarding and it leads to other problem like the fact that mastodon.social is really big and poses a potential threat for the Fediverse to be bought out because of it.

@FediTips

If I recall correctly, the official mobile Mastodon app have users sign up on the default instance which is... as you guessed it, mastodon.social

This, doesn't help either because a lot of newcomers are most likely mobile users.

I know that this is to make it easier for newcomers, but I think it just buries the onboarding problem rather than solve it.