Lev ParikianLike many people I signed up to the .social instance because it was the simplest and most obvious. I invite recommendations for other, cooler, smaller, easier, whateverer instances to move to. Thanks in advance. #MastodonCulture #instances #newbie
Jan Jones@levparikian I don't know what the others are like. I'm on mastodonapp.uk because, you know, it was there...
Hans ZaunerFor your bird&biology interests, I recommend ecoevo.social.
By the way: You can sniff out the local timeline of other servers using https://mastovue.glitch.me .
@HansZauner thanks. That’s very useful.
Tim J@levparikian Before signing up I found a website where you could search for servers by criteria like size, moderation rules, languages and so on, but I'm not sure what site it was. I can try and root it out if you like.
But I ended up on this one because I had an invitation link and being big, there weren't language restrictions. (In particular I can post in what I laughingly call Norwegian, and some of the smaller servers only allow languages the owner understands).
Tom Woodhead@levparikian zirk.us seems pretty good for literature/arts stuff so far
Adrian Clark@levparikian I switched to mastodon.coffee, only because I liked the name, but I've noticed that it's remained pretty quick when others have complained about slow servers.
Lagopus Scoticus@levparikian I’m on .lol and it seems a chill sort of place
Claire Iníon BouliSneachta@levparikian oh Lev, all the craic (fun) is on the .ie server.
I was on the social in the beginning for the same reason. Much better vibe & functioning on this one though. #Mastodaoine
I was on the social in the beginning for the same reason. Much better vibe & functioning on this one though. #Mastodaoine
Velvet SparrowIs .social being slow or something? The one I'm on has been pretty decent so far...but I'm just now establishing a toehold here and haven't really given it the acid test yet.
Graham Elliott@levparikian what practical differences are there?
@levparikian You can move followers/followed to another instance, but you loose your previous toots, AFAIK.
Something to consider, in case you start another world championship of words.
Scott Barolo@levparikian I’m enjoying zirk.us. It’s small and humanities-focused: lots of writers, artists & historians. But they’ve been very welcoming to this STEM person (who mostly posts about books). Now that I’m off mastodon.social I see that the “Local” feed is actually useful!