minus-squarestevecrox@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•A new Type of Mastodon Signup that gives people a sense of Agencylinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoIf you signup to social media it will pester you for your email contacts, location and hobbies/interests. Building a signup wizard to use that information to select a instance would seemto be the best approach. The contacts would let you know what instance most of your friends are located (e.g. look up email addresses). Topic specific instance, can provide a hobby/interests selection section. Lastly the location would let you choose a country specific general instance. It would help push decentralisation but instead of providing choice your asking questions the user is used to being asked. linkfedilink
If you signup to social media it will pester you for your email contacts, location and hobbies/interests.
Building a signup wizard to use that information to select a instance would seemto be the best approach.
The contacts would let you know what instance most of your friends are located (e.g. look up email addresses).
Topic specific instance, can provide a hobby/interests selection section.
Lastly the location would let you choose a country specific general instance.
It would help push decentralisation but instead of providing choice your asking questions the user is used to being asked.