I like the fact that mastodon.social is the biggest instance, but I would leave for an instance that is paid only, say $10/month, has a cool domain name, and thus can afford to raise the rate limits.

Mastodon.social feels like early Twitter both culturally (good), and fail-whale-wise (not good).

@gruber been trying out omg.lol but would love to find one that’s both paid and prevalent
@atharv @gruber I was going to promote https://omg.lol too, fun set of indie services too
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