Mastodon setting up the servers as “identities” is a weird move. Is someone gay or an artist? Are they interested in tech or cake recipes? Probably all of them! The server-as-identity is a counterproductive and highly artificial way of presenting the idea to the public, and its doing more harm than good. Most newbies assume they are limited to those servers, and freeze deciding what box they should be in (or rightfully reject the idea of any boxes).