Do you think it'd be easier for the average not-techy person to parse how mastodon works if it switched the official PR language from "instances" to "communities"?
(I was looking at the mastodon-twitter bridge site again and had this thought. People using it might not really get what an instance is, so "your friends are on these instances" is less immediately obvious as a concept than "your friends are in these communities" or something
@InspectorCaracal I have a problem that I wish I could connect it to more than one instance. I don't think I can though, right? Like I would like people to see both this and my scholar.social and I can decide if they're allowed to follow here.
@InspectorCaracal *embraces the 
spirit of experimentation* :tusky: 
@InspectorCaracal nope, it knows I'm :platypus: as soon as I login.
...dangit, we need more animals
@ruth I am not sure... It doesn't look like you can, but it's possible I guess that there's a back-door way to do it? Like logging out and then trying to connect with your other account and your twitter account and see what happens