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   @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 12:53:43 JST @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

   • Tim Chambers

   Back in the year 2022 when the Twitter Migration was happening —

   I asked people on Twitter who tried to join Mastodon but gave up — WHY they gave up

   By far, the most common complaint I heard was — picking a server instance

   It seem like a very important decision that they weren't prepared or ready to make that blocked them from joining Mastodon

   They didn't understand it. And, they didn't want to do it. So they gave up

   @tchambers

   RE: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

   #Fediverse #FediUX #FediverseUX

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 12:58:31 JST Tim Chambers

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     @reiver Thsnks for featuring this, Charles. Here was my best thinking on how to fix this UX Deadly Sin (and six others) …. https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/114739709799083596

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     @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 20:48:40 JST @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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     • Tim Chambers

     Back then I imagined one way this could have been solved.

     The Mastodon team tried to solve this by onboarding new users onto mastodon.social by default.

     However, I imagined people not creating accounts at first, but instead just subscribing to people's outboxes — all done on the client side, so they didn't have to choose a server instance.

     https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114070142883326241

     Using ActivityPub outboxes like RSS / Atom / WebFeeds.

     @tchambers

     RE: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

     #Fediverse #FediUX #FediverseUX

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 07:28:07 JST Tim Chambers

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     • Kiloku

     @Kiloku @reiver Would read like an odd definition of Virality…..

     “If True Virality (TM) fell in the woods, but nobody heard it….”

     Note: I wasn’t arguing for artificial algo pushed virality, but *discoverable* trending…

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     Kiloku (kiloku@burnthis.town)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 07:28:08 JST Kiloku

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     • Tim Chambers

     @reiver @tchambers

     > So what you get instead is discovery by divine accident: No algorithmic curation. No fediverse-wide trending topics. No “here’s what’s buzzing.”

     That's good. Great even. You get true virality. When something gets boosted 500+ times it's because it's actually good, and not because it got fed to every eyeball repeatedly due to some arcane engagement prediction metric. There is nothing to replace it with, the best way to do it is to not do anything.