Here's the problem.
Recent growth on mastodon.social is greater than the growth rate of November 2022.
But growth on other servers, like mstdn.social, has flatlined.
This has been confirmed to me by numerous Mastodon server admins.
Very concerning!
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And it is because they claim that people are confused when they are going to chose a server.
I personally, think that changing the word "server" to "community" during the signup process would make the process easier for new users (I think/hope).
@selea There's a few problems:
1. There was any wizard to help people find the *best* server -- it was just 10,000 servers and hope for the best
2. People don't know what "decentralized" means, so they go for the server that they perceive gives them the biggest network effect
3. People are being sold on "Mastodon as a Twitter replacement", not on "Fediverse as a Big Social replacement", which means federation is something people don't figure out until they register.
@atomicpoet @selea there's another aspect in that very few instances will defederate with mastodon.social. That's not true for most other instances. I've almost given up on my alternate instances a couple of times because I have to use several to interact with everyone.
