Here's a thing that makes Mastodon instances work less well than they could...
when you visit an instance, all the front pages look the same.
"About this instance" is a TINY little link under the sign-up form. This is crazy.
Instances should LEAD with a community description, not bury it.
That's like a newsgroup leading with the OS it used to run the newsgroup rather than saying: "This is a Kenny G community"
@BradyDale @mattskala The homepage can be totally redone - I've seen a few users deploy versions of mastodon from private forks.
@wogan @bradydale @mattskala maybe beacause instances weren't made to become communities ? but only account creation.
Shall we end up with local tl and create other types of instances? : connectors that don't create accounts ( extreme thinking ;)
@Adth @wogan @BradyDale Weren't they? My thread about "what will the network look like when there are 320 million users?" was mostly answered with "Instances are meant to be topical communities."
And if instances block each other to follow local speech-restriction laws, then at least those instances will necessarily be tied to legal geography.