I had assumed that weaning myself off of #Twitter after 14 years (and a legacy blue check!) would be slow and painful. It's been the opposite. I check there maybe twice a day. And it's like a ghost town, a deserted alley with the odor of decay. My timeline is a pale shadow of what it was only a month ago as users move out. Most of my regular correspondents are already here on #Mastodon. Fascinating.
@lauren @jeffjarvis @lauren Mastodon still can't handle influx of masses if suddenly 10 million more wanted to join.
There is no generic server which registration form one could point users to go. Main servers seem to have closed registration, and joining through joinmastodon.org is very confusing for regular people. It's like choosing your guild first, and then figuring out where the registration happens.
Mastodon could use more generic servers for those who are not in to guilds.
@Ciantic @jeffjarvis I've said this publicly before. The #Mastodon onboarding situation is a real problem, especially for nontechies without a lot of time to "research" all this. Frankly, I'd like to see a nonprofit create a quality onboarding and support structure, with some sort of membership fee involved to pay the bills. I realize this is controversial but I think it likely is necessary -- or else something else along these lines.
Agreed, we need digital skills tutors to cover signing up to Mastodon as part of their training packages.
