Adding an easy way to create a Mastodon account on mastodon.social to the official app? Yes, please.
I don’t understand the drama around this. Not like it’s removing other instances, or the ability to switch instances afterwards. It just gives an easier way in for people who don’t understand the instances concept.
It’s a good thing. Anything that helps onboarding is a good thing, and no, it doesn’t mean the developer has gone evil or wants to centralize things. 🙄🙄
@thelinuxEXP I think they're worried that will give mastodon.social too much power over the network, similar to what happened to email with Gmail.
@thelinuxEXP @curiousmind Not completely free, sadly, as unless users are aware from the start about the limitations of the migration process, they'll be put off from doing it later by the fact that they'd have to lose the list of people they're following and all the posts they've made. The latter is a big factor in why I have no plans to move.
(Nevertheless, I completely agree with your original point—rather get people in on one server than push them away with the "choose a server" hurdle.)
and, understanding the concept of instances shouldnt be rocket science. I fully support that software should be easy to use, but that doesnt mean you should get lazy. I mean, even switching phones from ios to android takes getting used to... activity pub isnt an imitation of the existing. its something else. why act like its not just to attract more crowd?
@ged @curiousmind Gmail did what to email? As far as I know, every other email provider still works, and can interact with gmail users.
Now, I host my own pleroma instance. If for whatever reason masto.social blocks my domain, and half the world is on their server, wouldnt see any freedom in that.
@curiousmind I don’t see how that would really work, since you’re completely free to leave the instance if it ever decides to implement something you don’t agree with. Centralization is only bad if there is also lockdown, which doesn’t exist here :)