Nice! I have queued this up for inclusion in the delightful fediverse experience curated list.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience
Periodic reminder that #Mastodon doesn't support migrating your posts when you move servers, because (checks notes) old words can hurt people
FYI Social.coop just patched Mastodon using a pretty hacky approach (docker-compose.yaml-based source code patching) to avoid having to move to a fork of Mastodon and/or build our own images; this, it seems, is what many instances around the Fediverse have had to do due to the #Mastodon project not prioritizing making character limit customization possible and declining PRs that tried to advance in this direction.
We got away with customizing this without forking (and paying the associated cost, and diverging from Mastodon mainline which we try to support...) but not all instances can afford to do this. I hope the project can become more open minded about supporting customization, given that so many instances would like to use the #Fediverse in ways that you might have not completely foreseen in advance when you decided on relatively arbitrary limits many years ago.
Thank you for your consideration, for what you do for the commons, and have a great day!
Imagine sharing a link to your fediverse account to someone not on the fediverse, hoping they follow you.
Now imagine instead that the link you share takes them to a beautiful yet simple landing page that carefully guides them to the ideal platform, geographically closest, and helps them through the onboarding process, recommends the best desktop/mobile client and then follows you from their new account.
Stop dreaming. I'm building this. Wanna help?
@dansup I like what you are doing though it doesn't benefit me as a WordPress user that I can tell.
Another use case would be having a link to an onboarding tool on profile pages, which could be tailorable for instances.
It could see someone not logged in, and given them the option of creating an account on the instance, or another instance.
This might even help with distributing new users to other instances.
It's a thought.