"New users on the decentralized social network Mastodon could soon have an easier time getting started. Mastodon is running "onboarding experiments" to test ways to improve the new user experience, starting with default server recommendations. Now when new users join Mastodon from the mobile app, they may see a button to "join" a recommended server rather than the default "join mastodon.social" button that's currently displayed."
"The addition of default server recommendations could potentially help new users find a server that suits their interests without overwhelming them or, alternatively, simply sending everyone to the general mastodon.social server. Mastodon says it's "planning to recommend the closest geographic server in the correct language based on data surfaced by the app store," so default server recommendations will initially only be on the platform's iOS and Android apps. Additionally, Mastodon is planning to expand options for classifying servers based on "demographics, interests, and geographic regions.""
Mastodon is running onboarding experiments to make it easier for new users to get started, beginning with default server recommendations on its iOS and Android apps. New users joining from the mobile app may see a "join" button for a recommended server instead of the default join mastodon.social option. The platform plans to recommend the closest geographic server in the correct language using app-store data and intends to expand server classifications by demographics, interests, and regions. Mastodon also launched a help center, added Packs that recommend groups of accounts, and is migrating its chat from Discord to the open-source Zulip as part of a FOSS infrastructure move following Discord's age-verification rollout.
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