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Mastodon.world and Lemmy.world July 2023 blog post (blog.mastodon.world)

submitted 11 months ago by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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An overdue blog post about the finances and other news from the .world

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[-] Lugh@futurology.today 28 points 11 months ago

I wonder why Mastodon.world has done so comparatively poorly. I also wonder if Mastodon could be more integrated with Lemmy would that improve things. As awful as twitter is these days, the way it embeds so easily into other content, which lets you click straight to its comments is invaluable. No doubt its on Elon's list of things to ruin, and he'll get around to it eventually.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

mastodon.social dominates for one simple reason. The Mastodon gGmbH app now defaults to mastodon.social sign ups.

Selecting instances was confusing the shit out of people, so they relented and simplified the signup process.

[-] imperator3733@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

That's unfortunate.

Instead of requiring an insurance selection or defaulting to one specific instance, perhaps they could have a handful of moderate/large instances that the app randomly selects between when a user signs up. That would spread out the signups from people who don't understand the instances.