By decentralizing at its core, it is important to not do the obvious #NGO thing and centralize round one codebase and one instances, this is so obviously a stupid thing to do for the #Fediverse and the #openweb, but as you say it's a good thing to do for #mainstreaming so let's talk balance BEFORE you push this out as damage.
So everyone is clear and responsible for their actions, in public #4opens
This miss the point entirely, and illustrates the problem, worth thinking about this.
The point is people like you, i.e. a group of people who think alike and act alike, very much like the people behind the DAMAGE #spreadmastodon will do without some rebalancing.
If people like you treat this ONLY as a #UX issue, then you are the problem. And yes, I did notice you took me out of this thread and will likely block soon.
The new #spreadmastodon project needs to balance the damage with the good it does with its outreach project.
The wider #Fediverse relying heavily on a single platform, mastodon or instance https://mastodon.social, can have negative consequences. Leading to a concentration of power and influence in the hands of a few individuals and entities. This can result in issues such as censorship, lack of innovation, and a loss of privacy for users.
@dimitrisk Or, keep the same design, and round-robin the button so it points to a different mastodon instance every time. The problem isn’t the lack of a “Choose your server” stage (although layering that in as a secondary possibility would not complicate the design and could be a good educational vector), it’s leading everyone to mastodon.social.
How to build and grow a diverse and robust sets of new server communities of all Fediverse servers is one big question we think we can organize around helping.
Celebrities and big brands may never flock to Mastodon. It's just the nature of the platform to target a small community rather than a large audience, and for those hoping to do that, they'll pick centralized systems every time. But for me, that's just fine. I like it here. Maybe some other friends would like it here too, that's what @spreadmastodon is about. Not having your social media owned by a corporation is a great feeling. Let's make it more common.
I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.
Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration