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by teeray 581 days ago
Because you can go to Bluesky and click “Sign Up” without a confusing explanation about instances.
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Mastodon has a big honkin' "Join mastodon.social" button both on joinmastodon.org and in the mobile apps to solve this exact problem.
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

But the fact they still have this perception of confusing sign-up means they were too late.
This. Nostr could learn from this too.