@renatolond @meena @Gargron seems like this is bound to be a recurring gripe. I disagree the flagship instance alone mitigates anything because you lose just what the federation is about, and then you're trapped in it unless you pay the price of foregoing your account for another elsewhere once you figured out the right instance for you.

I think the flagship is an acceptable first step once there is seamless account migration.

@serialised @meena @Gargron That's true, without the account migration it does get harder.
I really don't know what could help in this moment, though. https://instances.social wizard is supposed to narrow the instances according to your preferences, but still you might end up with a bunch of possible ones.

@renatolond @serialised @meena @Gargron yeah, even selecting my preferences, I still got like, 50 instances?

@renatolond @meena @Gargron I think treating mastodon.social as a flagship instance, where people can simply register and start using is the best choice. Regular users don't want (or handle well) choices.

But... we have the problem of not being able to migrate our accounts. That's a bummer, and one of the reasons I don't 'invest more time' on using mastodon. Because I'm undecided/indecisive, and trying to choose between the flagship or 2 other instances...