[xaduha]

Who should decide it for you then? Did someone mention blockchain already?

But seriously though, if you start to make it more distributed than it already is it will look even less like Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(protocol)

[phire]

Most users don't care how distributed it is, or what it's architecture looks like.

They just want to sign up, and get an out-of-the box experience more or less like twitter.

[lrvick]

If Mastodon was fully centralized like Twitter and offered that experience, it would need an immense source of funding, and need ads, and shareholders, and would be losing money rapidly until some billionare bought it out... like Twitter.

Mastodon is built so that there is no single point of failure, but that means users have no single point of signup. It is like email, or matrix. Host your own on your own domain for a few dollars a month or join a friendly server paying the bill for you.

It is really not that hard, but people are just not used to having choices on the internet anymore.

At some point someone you know picked Twitter and you did too. Maybe find some friends or public figures you like on Mastodon and see what server they are on.

[jazzyjackson]

isn't the whole point of federated service that I don't have to be on the same server as people I'm following?

[lrvick]

Of course. I only suggest that for people that cannot decide what server to choose.

[xaduha]

If they don't care, then they should stay on Twitter. There isn't a better option right now than Mastodon/ActivityPub.