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Should Mastodon fans just be phrasing this kind of choice as if it were email? "You can have an email account on any number of servers, and you can send email
by BryantD 4y ago
Should Mastodon fans just be phrasing this kind of choice as if it were email?
"You can have an email account on any number of servers, and you can send email anywhere, no matter where your account is."
"You can have a Mastodon account on whichever server you like, and you can follow people anywhere, no matter where your account is."
It just seems like a paradigm people already understand that might be more welcoming.
- emptyparadise 4y agoThat seems like a really nice way to do it. "You can sign up with one of these main instances and follow people no matter where their account is. If you find make a lot of friends in a specific corner of the Fediverse, or just want to switch to another instance, you can do so whenever you want."
- Normille 4y agoAnd, to continue the email analogy [in response to all the "Just change servers if you don't like the one you signed up for"] If you don't like your email provider, just change to a different one... Oh yeah. And you'll lose all your previous emails. But we won't mention that.
- lrvick 4y agoActually on Mastodon you can change servers and keep your followers and follows. It has a built in mail forwarding process.
- BryantD 4y agoI don't think you can move your old posts, though, FWIW. But it's an analogy intended to help with the server selection process; I don't think it has to be perfect.
- lrvick 4y agoYou can use a script to download old toots and automatically repost them, backdated, to a new server. A lot of people do this when moving email servers.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoIn fact I've seen that analogy made many times on Mastodon in the last week.