I know this will lead to a heated debate, but I have to agree with @Gargron.
Having to pick an instance/server is cited as the biggest hurdle to joining Mastodon, and dismissing people who feel this way is just plain rude.
Yes, the registration flow for Mastodon should be user-friendly. And yes, we need to live up to the promises of decentralized social media. We just need to get creative about our approach.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/
So the official App, has the optipn as default to join the main Mastodon instance, how easy would it be to make a patch so that each instance hosting the app, can patch, so that the app they offer defaults to that instance.
For example if I download the app from qoto, or follow a link from qoto, then it would download the patched version for that instance.
@zleap Definitely an interesting idea!
Cool, thanks, I lack the technical skills for this but if we can throw ideas around maybe a good solution can be found.
Out of interest how to other fedi services address this issue >
@zleap Ah, sorry, I wouldn't really know.
Maybe @fediversereport might have some insight?