You're right, when I tried again the field was hidden behind a link. Last time I checked (sometime last month) it was a field that defaulted to bsky.social (maybe within the account name?). Or I could be misremembering.
Yeah - technically the same button, but with a slightly more subtle treatment. People were getting confused by it and bouncing. IMO, since it's only really useful if you already know what you're doing and already have a PDS ready to go, there's no harm making the first-time experience smoother.
This is all totally going to change when OAuth rolls out, so hopefully we can find a better compromise then.
DocChi77|1 year ago
It's not very prominent, but the Android mobile app does have the option to change what server you register on.
https://ibb.co/s9pzTt3k
You can tap on the bold "Bluesky Social" text to change it.
> And there is no single one alternative server where we can register and interact with people on bsky.app
You absolutely can host a PDS that interacts flawlessly with the rest of the network. I host my own. There's an entire section in the README about self-hosting: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#sel...
Krssst|1 year ago
In any case, my previous comment is wrong indeed.
mozzius|1 year ago
This is all totally going to change when OAuth rolls out, so hopefully we can find a better compromise then.