Joining servers is a confusing affair on Mastodon, and could hold back new users from signing up to it.
If you've not tried Mastodon, think of it as Twitter but segregated into different communities, called servers, that you can join. However, you can still follow your friends if they're in a different server on your timeline., creator and developer of Mastodon, has already expressed surprise at over a million new users joining the service in the past week, but if he wants to keep increasing user numbers at this level, he needs to look at simplifying how someone joins a server.
Yet the one glaring issue I've found so far is when you're creating a new account you're overwhelmed with sometimes rather confusion choices, such as a screen asking you to join different servers. If you have an existing account, you need to find the server you made your account on, and finding new users is particularly difficult as it's hard to list the available servers.
It's a confusing affair - and it makes for a bad first impression if you're a casual user who just wants to try the platform out. Some people may feel confused as to what a 'server' actually means in this case.
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