I read about their name change and wondered what it was. I had a similar experience. Really bad UX. When you click join it asks you if you want to create a new server or join an existing server. I picked “join existing” but the first button on the page is to “submit your server”.

I clicked the “verified” server which was down (and is still down… who goes down for days for a domain change?)

I clicked another server and hit Explore and it showed me a list of pinned users that supposedly had many posts each, however I clicked on various elements such as the post count trying to view them and couldn’t. At that point I just closed my browser tab.

I assume this thing is some sort of Mastodon-like social network but coming in blind it’s hard to tell.

I dunno, I was up and running in five minutes. You pick an instance, you sign up, you verify the email, and you're good to go. What server doesn't matter much, barring it closing unexpectedly and without warning. There's not enough users to need more than a handful.

Yeah, the dust is still settling (in the middle of a rebrand/namespace migration). I like it as it feels like Mastodon++ and it last links with Lemmy/Kbin.

I'm using calckey.world and it was a bit crunchy at first but is working well now. The userbase at this point is small compared to the mastodon servers we're used to seeing.

I can't blame free software for not working correctly in Apple's special browser that only exists on their platform. Years ago they were really focused on having a good and standards compliant browser but it's started to become the new Internet Explorer for iPhone. At least on Mac computers you can install a different browser.

Because misskey is superior