I am not sure I can express this enough: the onboarding experience is overwhelmingly confusing.
I've already ended up dumped on a page with a long list of servers, and it's not clear whether this choice matters or not. Half the comments here say it does, half say it doesn't!
But let's see my choices today: ruby.social, todon.eu, hostux.social, Glasgow.social, metalhead.net, socel.net, machteburch.social, activism.openworlds.info, eldritch.cafe, toot.wales, tooting.ch, sfba.social, indieweb.social, tech.lgbt, lor.sh "Yet another server," tilde.zone, ieji.de, is.nota.live, libretooth.gr, mastodonapp.uk, ravenation.club, climatejustice.social, noc.social, maly.io, mastodon.nz, qoto.org, mastodon.ie, and I'm tired of pasting, but literally NONE OF THE ABOVE seem to be for me!
And again, I don't know how much this matters, but it feels overwhelming. Also, a startlingly high percentage of socialist and otherwise left-leaning servers in that initial list, which might be intended, or might just be coincidentally arrayed to drive away people who are offended by such things.
The worst part about this is, I'm pretty sure I signed up with mastodon back when it was first launched, but I can't remember the server, so...
anyone finding faults with Masto should take the AP protocol and write their own implementation. The monoculture of the Mastoverse is less than ideal and the space is much more interesting when you figure out the secret sauce (ActivityPub)
I've already ended up dumped on a page with a long list of servers, and it's not clear whether this choice matters or not. Half the comments here say it does, half say it doesn't!
But let's see my choices today: ruby.social, todon.eu, hostux.social, Glasgow.social, metalhead.net, socel.net, machteburch.social, activism.openworlds.info, eldritch.cafe, toot.wales, tooting.ch, sfba.social, indieweb.social, tech.lgbt, lor.sh "Yet another server," tilde.zone, ieji.de, is.nota.live, libretooth.gr, mastodonapp.uk, ravenation.club, climatejustice.social, noc.social, maly.io, mastodon.nz, qoto.org, mastodon.ie, and I'm tired of pasting, but literally NONE OF THE ABOVE seem to be for me!
And again, I don't know how much this matters, but it feels overwhelming. Also, a startlingly high percentage of socialist and otherwise left-leaning servers in that initial list, which might be intended, or might just be coincidentally arrayed to drive away people who are offended by such things.
The worst part about this is, I'm pretty sure I signed up with mastodon back when it was first launched, but I can't remember the server, so...