Since Mastodon.social has been down for registration, what id driving you to pick your particular instance?
Personally I went with the next highest userbase, uptime, and the stated amount of federation.
How about everyone else?
@Rasgueado Does feel like we missed out on the canonical instance, but that might just be "getting used to federation" over time. Not sure what it's going to mean long term.
@Rasgueado It's feels like it will be a problem in the future as name-squatting becomes a thing. How do you tell who is the real Shatner, for instance? Can I just register as Coca-cola? etc etc
But yes, so far, no real problems as long as you pull from the federated timeline.
@randomhappening I'm very curious to see how this will shake out. What types of groups/media will make a push on here first, and what vector/instance will they use.
Maybe the way for brands to use it would be to just make their own instance, and federate themselves into the public timeline?
@Rasgueado Or the server index becomes a registry...like Identity Verification service and an indicator to show who "passed"?
@randomhappening I thoguht the same thing! I had that pang of... "awww... it's not the source" but... it seems alright still so far. =D