➡️ new acct link in bioImagining if Mastodon called instances "neighborhoods" instead. The metaphor works really well IMO and doesn't sound like robot-speke.
Jag Talon ✨@alexhillman I like that. Gets you thinking that the instance you choose is important to your experience.
Mike Tannenbaum@jag @alexhillman I’m trying to figure out what instance(s) I want to be on and that seems to be the hardest part.
@miketannenbaum @jag it's also not permanent, like picking a place to live.
Marcin Cieślak@alexhillman @miketannenbaum @jag it would be great if "federated timeline" could be explained in terms of "neighborhoods". In the Polish translation of #Amaroq I took the liberty to use "rozmowa" ("conversation", "talk") instead of timeline and therefore I could use "rozmowa miejscowa" (lit. "Local talk" but also "local (telephone) call" and "rozmowa międzymiastowa" (lit. "Inter-city talk" but really "long distance call"). Old telecom meanings seemed to play nicely in Polish
Yeah it's overwhelming! People have made alternate instance lists that feature some nice ones:
https://instances.noct.zone/ by @dzuk
https://kitty.town/@GinnyMcQueen/100571796007162060 by @GinnyMcQueen