Mastodon server admins, important news!

[homegrown@social.growyourown.services]

Mastodon server admins, important news!

The Mastodon developers are going to stop suggesting mastodon.social as a "default server".

Instead, the "default" server suggestions are going to be ones for a user's language and/or geographical location.

If your server matches these:

- General public server
- Running vanilla Mastodon
- Mastodon Covenant compliant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans

...then see this post for details: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989802617165343

#MastoAdmin

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@homegrown

Yay!

[eric@geldmacher.io]

@homegrown

This is good news!
I know the apps sign up flow has been a concern of yours (and others) for a while. Hopefully this will result in healthier, more even distribution of new accounts across the network.

[homegrown@social.growyourown.services]

@eric

Indeed! And it's a really clever solution they've come up with, it solves two problems at once by prioritising servers in the user's own language or location and encouraging decentralisation that way.

[jawarajabbi@mastodon.online]

@homegrown

This is good to see. I've watched the public exchanges about the default server issue and to see that it has been resolved equitably is nice!

#Mastodon

[finchhaven@sfba.social]

@homegrown

It's seriously about time

Way past time, as a matter of fact

I've been on Mastodon generally since November 2, 2022, and it was an issue back then

cc @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering

[homegrown@social.growyourown.services]

@Ember

It will, but getting them to step away from recommending mastodon.social is a massive step in the right direction.

Also they do leave the door open for forked software instances. The exact wording they use on their criteria list is:

"Run default Mastodon (for now)"

Also also, this is just about the default instances recommended up front, they would still have the complete listing behind that which does already include Glitch etc instances.

[krafting@mamot.fr]

@homegrown this is actually really great!

[dawn@social.lol]

@homegrown @tetaneutral_net !

[homegrown@social.growyourown.services]

p.s. The complete thread from the developers at https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302 has even more info about this initiative:

[shalien@mastodon.projetretro.io]

@homegrown sounds / feels fishy

[idlestate@toot.cat]

@homegrown

Oh frabjous day!

[globcoco@mamot.fr]

@homegrown

Super happy about this

[daj@gofer.social]

@homegrown Good news. It's an awful introduction to the fediverse. Their local time line is awash with scams, porn, bots, and spammers

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@homegrown it also has to have open registrations..

[homegrown@social.growyourown.services]

@elduvelle

That's true at the moment, yes.

From reading between the lines on the responses by Mastodon's official accounts in the discussions on this, the requirements are not necessarily set in stone, especially on things that already allow listing in the main index like forked software and registration requests.

[maru@rebel.ar]

@sanmartin

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@homegrown heads up @coop

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@homegrown @Ember

The original thread does say "for now"