Joanne FreemanI figure that bigger servers are slower; that they have different rules. But since you can communicate with all servers from other ones, and follow people from other servers, why change? Is it because "local" posts are only from your server? (I'll admit, I haven't looked at that category yet...newbie that I am.)
Jim Wald@jbf1755 That's what I've always thought: for focus.
A lot of people (most?) joined Mastodon Social in the beginning of the Great Migration because it was an easy and obvious choice. But other people prefer to join an instance whose community is built around their interests (including academic and technical).
I think this piece, though geared to natural scientists, describes things well:
Should I join Mastodon? A scientists’ guide to Twitter’s rival https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03668-7?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=16df11fc16-briefing-wk-20221111&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-16df11fc16-42695035
