[BUG] App onboarding is directing new users to join mastodon.social by default
### Is there an existing issue for this? - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### Current Behavior With the current setup, the app strongly implies users should just join mastodon.social, with a harder-to-read button below it saying "pick your own server". Most new users will not bother clicking "pick your own server", they probably won't even understand what it means or think about it at all. (Also, from the way it's phrased in English, if they do read the button they may think it only applies to people who own their own servers.) New users are already likely to join through the app, and the current onboarding will probably make them join mastodon.social. In a future signup wave, on current numbers mastodon.social's further growth could well give it a majority of members, which is a threat to the federated network as a whole. ### Expected Behavior The app should prompt people to choose a server without favouring one specific server. If people have difficulty with the concept of choosing a server, there should be better handholding, wizards etc. Introducing them to the concept of choice is really important and fundamental for the survival of the federated network. Part of the point of this app is to get people introduced to how decentralisation works! It's not supposed to be about growth at any cost, it's supposed to be about sustainable responsible growth through decentralisation. If you absolutely have to have a single signup button, a much better alternative
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[BUG] App onboarding is directing new users to join mastodon.social by default
### Is there an existing issue for this? - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### Current Behavior With the current setup, the app strongly implies users should just join mastodon.social, with a harder-to-read button below it saying "pick your own server". Most new users will not bother clicking "pick your own server", they probably won't even understand what it means or think about it at all. (Also, from the way it's phrased in English, if they do read the button they may think it only applies to people who own their own servers.) New users are already likely to join through the app, and the current onboarding will probably make them join mastodon.social. In a future signup wave, on current numbers mastodon.social's further growth could well give it a majority of members, which is a threat to the federated network as a whole. ### Expected Behavior The app should prompt people to choose a server without favouring one specific server. If people have difficulty with the concept of choosing a server, there should be better handholding, wizards etc. Introducing them to the concept of choice is really important and fundamental for the survival of the federated network. Part of the point of this app is to get people introduced to how decentralisation works! It's not supposed to be about growth at any cost, it's supposed to be about sustainable responsible growth through decentralisation. If you absolutely have to have a single signup button, a much better alternative
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