@Mastodon

Onboarding seems to be the barrier to Mastodon's growth and success. The whole Active ecosystem is a bit foreign to general users and needs more work.

@Mastodon Consider that many may prefer non-local servers. I sure wouldn’t want an American server.

@Mastodon this is great and will improve the user experience so much. Well done

@ruud @NoOnesRival @Mastodon

I'm in the USA but was happy to discover that my choice to be my instance was based in Europe. Serendipity.

I like the idea of having more laws in place for my privacy.

@Mastodon
Good point! Just in case your team hasn't thought of this yet, I'd like to share an idea.

On the pricing page of my hobby project (link in my bio), I wanted to show the prices of the "correct" country. But I wanted to ensure that I don't get to know the result if someone is just visiting.

But sending the user's IP address to a third party geolocation service is not legally possible without first asking for consent.

Here's my solution: the web page contacts a tiny endpoint on my server that returns the IPv4 address it sees, but doesn't log it. Then the country lookup happens client-side via a geo-IP database file that the web page has loaded into the browser cache earlier. As the web server itself also doesn't log, I don't have any data on visitors (unless they become customers).

In the next step, you could list all languages of servers in that country, starting with the most common ones spoken there (e.g. for Switzerland: DE, FR, IT, RM) & let them choose.

#GDPR #SaaS

@matt thanks, done.

@Mastodon Done

@renwillis

@Mastodon has improved a lot, already. Try registering a new account again, these days and you'll see by yourself

@sunnythesheep @Mastodon you don’t need to pitch it to me. I’m all in on the fediverse and its potential.

But my conversations with folks on Bluesky, IG, etc when I preach the virtues — they falling on deaf ears.

It’s still seen as complex, not user friendly, and feels like “starting over” where Bluesky doesn’t.

@Mastodon hype, this is a great idea! Looking forward to this- also it would be cool to see this with other apps too