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Speaking about #decentralization and Mastodon, does Mastodon official client onboarding flow still promote the "mastodon.social" or other single server as default option instead of rotating/randomizing across the list of known servers with option to type server manually? Without this #Mastodon will have to "block Missisipi" too eventually.
Yes, I referring to that decision of #Bluesky to block access to bluesky web UI from IP addresses in Missisipi US state due age-check laws adopted there.
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I think @FediTips@social.growyourown.services posted about this a few weeks ago. There was a github issue that they asked to vote on about it. I remember reading it because I was thinking it might be nice if the onboarding asked a few questions like your country/region and some interests and then could recommend a server based on that.
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The Github issues to vote in about this are:

- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a…
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-i…
- github.com/mastodon/joinmastod…

Replace "Join mastodon.social" button on front page with button promoting rotating third party server from pool of reliable servers

At the moment the front page of JoinMastodon is implying that people who want to join Mastodon should join mastodon.social. This is causing the Fediverse to centralise, as the percentage of active ...
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Thanks! I already voted to these issues.

The most difficult thing is to form and maintain a high-quality list of these instances to select/rotate from.
Criteria I think about:
1. Signed same moderation covenant, to be sure these recommended servers have compatible moderation policies
2. Operate e. g. at least 3 months
3. Accept new members (for this flow - without pre-moderation?!)
4. Operator gave consent to be added to this list.

Rotation can be as "instance of the week"?

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