Give me advice on how to get people to sign up to a specific Mastodon instance AND get an app, rather than have to tell them to “go to oslo.town and sign up and then go to joinmastodon.org/apps to get an app then click the option in the app which is no...
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Give me advice on how to get people to sign up to a specific Mastodon instance AND get an app, rather than have to tell them to “go to oslo.town and sign up and then go to joinmastodon.org/apps to get an app then click the option in the app which is not to join mastodon.social but rather to sign in using another server and add the oslo.town account that you just made”
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hallvorsreplied to matt at oslo dot town last edited by
@matt Also web user, so I don't know how the apps work, but isn't it simpler to tell users to sign up _through_ the app, if that is possible? I assume an app has some UI for picking instances and signing up for them, no? Would simplify instructions to something like
- find Ivory in app store, install
- type 'oslo.town' when asked for instance, register -
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@jantzen @hallvors That’s not so easy. Most apps have really horrible sign-up processes. And if they have a nice sign up process, its because they point people to one server as default and the others are a login option.
Even the official #Mastodon app pushes a default instance and finding oslo.town is not only hard, but confusing if you dont even know the difference between Mastodon and oslo.town
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to matt at oslo dot town last edited by
@matt @jantzen @hallvors I feel like without creating your own app, it will be hard to do.
There's 20,000+ instances. There's no way to list them all in a good enough way to incorporate all their info, rules, and nuances all packed into a mobile UI.
If there's someone that tries, I'll be very interested to see how it looks and works.