Notices by Ed Bott (edbott@mastodon.social), page 2

Nice work, Jack. Your buddy Elon has turned Twitter into 8Chan.

@shoq There was also a discoverability issue. Most people who went to joinmastodon.org were served a very short list of instances with most of them closed to new registrants. Those that were open were mostly for niche audiences. There was no link to other directories that were open. So for non-technical people it really was baffling.

That might have changed since then but it was the root of the "confusion over finding a server" issue.

@caffeneko @shoq It's a nonprofit so no incentive to disadvantage anyone. More of a case of the instance being overwhelmed by the migration.