@peterkal @dansup I agree with you, but do you need to put all users on the same server if they don't want to decide? Why not pick a random one from the joinmastodon.org list instead for example?
>is good or bad compared to having the one clickable URI
URIs are harder to read and we don't how long joinmastodon.org will last
Please join me in a round of applause for @elduvelle who, after reading my toot, reached out to the Forbes journalist, pointing out the "Mastadon" typo.
The typo has been fixed and the article is even linking to https://joinmastodon.org now 🥳
@jedi Yeah you can’t escape choosing an instance but definitely joinmastodon.org should have a different page when user already clicked join on another site. Explaining it all over again feels like you mistakenly ended on the wrong page.
Ideally instance owners should be able to recommend a list of friendly instances for registration and the page on source instance should directly show which ones are open.
@jedi Here I’d say the worst part is joinmastodon.org appears the same if you come from Google as when you come directly from a post on some instance after having already clicked “join” already 3 pages ago.
I had to scroll down 3 screens explanations and filters before I found a join buttons (again!) and it defaulted to English for me — yet my phone is in French, as bsky immediately knew from the headers. The number of hurdles is high 😅
@jedi True ! It’s much better. But is is a special build they are running ? I tried on bolha.one which I believe runs the latest mastodon server version (and also closed for registrations) and I got the same process as on mastodon.online ending up on joinmastodon.org which is the place I am sure most newcomers get lost forever.
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