It's a single user, hosted instance so just https://krapp.masto.host https://krapp.masto.host would also work, it's just (unnecessarily) pointing to a user acco

It's a single user, hosted instance so just https://krapp.masto.host https://krapp.masto.host would also work, it's just (unnecessarily) pointing to a user account. It's not that weird - this very forum is a subdomain of ycombinator, people used to host their sites under geocities and tripod and the like. I agree that instance discovery is a problem - mostly because identity isn't portable on Mastodon so you're kind of making a commitment, but it clearly isn't an insurmountable level of complexity for a lot of people to deal with. Most people will just gravitate to the biggest instances and that's fine. One of the lessons I think the fragmentation of Twitter is teaching us is that the user experience doesn't have to be as simple and frictionless as possible.. people will put up with some rough edges if they want to.