On: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a ...

[teeray]

Because you can go to Bluesky and click “Sign Up” without a confusing explanation about instances.

[grishka → teeray]

Mastodon has a big honkin' "Join mastodon.social" button both on joinmastodon.org and in the mobile apps to solve this exact problem.

[rvz → grishka]

Good solution. Problem is they have chosen a 'default instance' in the app which goes against the idea to encourage federation of the platform and instead accelerates centralization and there was backlash over that change. [0]

mastodon.social will only get more centralized and is the only one that is benefitting from that change.

[0] https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110233282251253677

[teeray → grishka]

But the fact they still have this perception of confusing sign-up means they were too late.

[genem9 → teeray]

This. Nostr could learn from this too.