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Aral Balkan

Dear @Gargron,

Please reevaluate your decision to incentivise centralisation on mastodon.social in the official app.

This is the sort of design a VC-funded startup would implement, not a non-profit acting in the interests of a healthy commons.

I’m sure you don’t want mastodon.social to become mini-Twitter and you don’t want to become mini-Musk.

That’s not how we win this.

More instances, not larger instances is the key.

mastodon.ar.al/@feditips@mstdn

Screenshot (by fedi.tips) of official Mastodon app with emphasised/filled in “Join mastodon.social” button on top of a deemphasised (hollow) “Pick my own Server” button
#decentralisation#fediverse#staySmall
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Tom Walker

@aral

> "This is the sort of design a VC-funded startup would implement"

It extremely isn't. There's a "pick your own server" button right there. It's trying to smooth out the process for new users so the very first screen isn't a big explanation of what an instance is.

Hyperbole is not how we win this, etc.

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Aral Balkan

@tomw It is *literally* the same design that a VC-funded Mastodon app *did* implement.

This isn’t hyperbole.

It’s not even conjecture.

Screenshot of Mammoth app showing prominent Create an Account button alongside a secondary “Or sign in to an existing community” link.
Screenshot of TechCrunch article: Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth’s pre-seed funding
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Tim Chambers

@aral @tomw
Aral: if on the server side there were a round-robin where it swapped out to which server was featured assuming a good mix of X number of different servers benefited - would you object to this UI/UX design from either Mammoth or others?

Aral Balkan

@tchambers @tomw I would object to Mammoth no matter what they did because it is VC-funded and we all know how that game goes and how it ends (and don’t get me started on Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla VC).

On the other hand, if the Mastodon app implemented round-robin, no, of course I wouldn’t have an objection to that. That’s how it should be.

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