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Steve Troughton-Smith Jan 24, 2023

I'll be honest, not being able to get a handle on mastodon.social put me off adopting Mastodon for quite a while (until I found the invite system). While I'm glad there are other instances, that doesn't really help you if the one instance you do want to be on is full. This is my third Mastodon account, but the one I'll stick with

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Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Jan 24, 2023

@stroughtonsmith Interesting! I intentionally wanted another instance (and a smaller one — though this one is huge these days as well), so the local timeline would be usable like the firehose of early Twitter.

Not that this instance is small by any measure, AFAIK Chaos is the biggest German computer/information security club, and there's lots of people like me here who aren't members and just loosely associated with it. They had to lock down new joins a while ago, even with invites.

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Darren McGuicken Jan 24, 2023

@uliwitness @stroughtonsmith I moved to the .ie instance from .social for the same reason, it basically gives me a ‘free’ additional timeline full of—in this case—basically local news. Since I can follow ‘my interests’ via hashtags across the fediverse, a geographically local timeline seemed like the thing to otherwise prioritise.

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Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)

@dmcgk Yeah, makes total sense. Chaos is a German club, so there is a bit of that in my instance choice as well, and many politically active people in there as well.