Hey new people and those thinking of joining, you do NOT need to sign up on huge servers!
You can follow and interact with people on any server from any server, the servers are connected.
It would really, really help the network right now if you could sign up on medium or small size servers. You will still be able to follow and interact with whoever you want, and the network as a whole will work much better.
A good safe place for beginners to find servers to join is https://joinmastodon.org/servers
@feditips why give people the choice, since they don’t understand what a distributed system is? Just put them on the least loaded server at the time they sign up.
Servers each have their own rules about what is allowed, what their atmosphere is like, what kind of people they are aimed at etc.
I don't think well-run servers would agree to it if they were assigned users at random by an outside authority.
@feditips oh, I see.
@feditips if i can see posts from other servers, then my servers rules apply to those posts?