Though if decentralization were to be hidden, it’d be a good idea to cycle through lots of well established general instances for user signups under the hood. The vast majority of people are just going to choose the default options, and if it’s all going to funnel into mastodon.social, that’s a lot of centralization of users. Ideally no single server lords over all the others in terms of user count, because that gives them lots of power other instances may feel compelled to abide by. Having power spread out across many different people helps keep things in check, at the very least making large or drastic decisions more of a round table affair.
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MudMan@kbin.social 9 months ago
I've been saying this from the go: users don't need to know decentralization even exists until AFTER they are signed up.
What Mastodon needs is a proper migration flow that moves old posts and remote follows so users can decide if they want a new instance after they spend some time in the system and start to understand how it works. Any mention of decentralization on signup is a churn point, because decentralization doesn't add any features to posting and reading posts. From a UX perspective, decentralization isn't a feature.
Things are about to get messier once the big decision coming in becomes "do you want to see Threads or nah?", which then actively requires thinking about a competing social media platform on the way into this one.
Foxfire@pawb.social 9 months ago
Scrollone@feddit.it 9 months ago
Not only decentralization is not a feature – it’s a burden. “Normal” users (read: non nerds like 99% of us here) couldn’t care less about which server they should sign up to.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Tbh then just tell em to sign up for madtodon.social, or a specific instance you know they’d like since you know them fairly well, problem solved. They can migrate later if they want anyway, fuck it, they’ll be fine. It’s a masto acct not a limb amputation, like hair so to speak “it’ll grow back.”
explodicle@local106.com 9 months ago
Mastodon has account migration? Are we going to get that?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Iirc I heard that is part of this update along with blocking instances but I haven’t yet figured out how to do either, and my instance just logged me out with the update so I finally made the move to eternity and am learning that UI now too instead of jerboa, so it may be a minute before I do figure it out lol.
panicnow@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you migrate your own account to a new server, do other people follows of you automatically migrate too? Or do all your followers need to then update to follow you at the new location?
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 9 months ago
That kind of attitude leads to being scammed with popups and robbed of all your savings.
Go back to your VCR, Granma.