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1. Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 08:59:38 JST Derek Powazek 🐐

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   It's just very bad design to ask a user to do something that they literally cannot do, and this is the first thing we ask of new users. "Choose wisely!" Okay, what does that mean? How do I do that? "Choose wisely!"

   When people talk about how alienating getting started on Mastodon is, this is a big part of it.

   • Derek Powazek 🐐 (fraying@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 08:59:39 JST Derek Powazek 🐐

     A core problem with Mastodon is that we tell new users "choose your instance wisely" but there's absolutely no way a user could have foreseen that their instance would get too big for the owner to manage and he'd just shut it down one day.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.