The concept of home server in Mastodon is not great. I think servers should show content from all over Mastodon with most servers giving the same experience. Expecting people to pick a server and then mostly talk to the same people is silly.
Lemmy is much better in that regard since content is organized by community.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I still don’t understand why that’s the barrier to entry for many people. It’s like people want to be enslaved to a monopoly on purpose.
yhvr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
In case it helps you understand: barriers of entry to Mastodon, from my perspective as an ex-Twitter user and current Bluesky and Mastodon user (note it took me 4 tries over 5 years to actually “enjoy” Mastodon)
Bonus things that probably don’t serve as barriers to entry but are real issues for active users:
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Because it has a huge impact on the user experience. You primarily see content from the home server.
kandoh@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
People saw the servers and it reminded them of how world of warcraft worked