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 You should checkout https://omg.lol. It’s $20/year and you get a Mastodon account and so much more.
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@jmj @gruber @film_girl and Merlin @hotdogsladies is here for $20 a year
@phils @jmj @gruber @hotdogsladies oh shit, I got one of these accounts! I didn’t remember it included Mastodon!
@film_girl see you on the good side. It’s never been down so far - unlike other instances….