I’m in a brainstorming kinda mood. What can we do to help more of our pals abandon corpo social media and hang out in #mastodon / #fediverse instead? Let’s make this thread long and chaotic!
Make some type of automated conversion app, where all you have to do is sign in with TW/FB/IG creds and it sets up your account for you.
Make it easy for users on Mastodon to prove that they’re the same owner of social media accounts on other platforms. Otherwise I think spoof accounts could be too easy / common / annoying.
Make it extremely simple and unscary to pick which Mastodon server to join. Some days I still wonder if I’m on “the right instance” and that’s not particularly helpful thinking for an expert. For new users it could spook them before they join.
@patrickmcurry The Joinmastodon server picker has become very simple and easy. Anyway it's not uncommon for new users to change the istance after they had some initial experience here.
The only way to get people immediately on the right istance is by an active promotion by the single instances/communities themselve https://mastodon.help/en#ChoosingTheInstance
@Ca_Gi I'll check this out. Seems very promising. 😎