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This goes completely against the principle of "federated network". It's directing new users to join one instance, with plans to expand the list of instances that can be joined through this website to... four. To be selected as one of the four (actually three, since mastodon.social will always be one of them) instances, the instance has to abide by mastodon.social's rules, and selection is done by mastodon.social staff. At what point does "make onboarding easier for new users" become "return to centralized social media except Eugene Rochko instead of Elon Musk is CEO"?
Andreas, Did you see this? This is where we are building for, would appreciate any notes to this idea and if it would alleviate your concerns about centralization: our goal would be to swap out one sever and swap in new ones over time to spread out far beyond four overall. And Mastodon.social staff are not involved and would not have any say over the four.
https://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/round-robin