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You could point people to https://mastodon.social https://mastodon.social, the "flagship" instance, or directly to any other instance's homepage. There's someth
by mintplant 9y ago
You could point people to https://mastodon.social https://mastodon.social, the "flagship" instance, or directly to any other instance's homepage. There's something of a word-of-mouth aspect here, in that instances targeted toward particular communities can be more attractive to people within those communities than general-purpose social networks.
There's an instance chooser wizard at https://instances.social/ https://instances.social/, but I can see someone looking at that and calling it too complicated as well.
- madeofpalk 9y ago> Mastodon > Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social Umm what? > What is mastodon.social? > mastodon.social is the "flagship" instance, belonging to the Mastodon project. ...sure.
- Spivak 9y ago> Twitter > Twitter is hosted on twitter.com Seems to make sense. > What is twitter.com > twitter.com is the "public" instance of the Twitter service. You were one layer away from the answer. What is the Mastodon Project? > The world’s largest free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network.
- UberActivist 9y agoI poked the owner and he updated mastodon.social to say this and be more clear... > What is mastodon.social? > This page describes the mastodon.social instance - wondering what Mastodon is? Check out joinmastodon.org instead! In essence, Mastodon is a decentralized, open source social network. This is just one part of the network, run by the main developers of the project It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!