Mastodawn

Deborah Pickett Feb 10, 2023

Looking for a new instance to move to?

These instances have advertised on #FindAServer as having capacity. (I am no longer updating this post except to remove servers now at capacity; check the hashtag for many MANY other announcements!)

aus.social
babb.be
babka.social
blahaj.zone
blorbo.social
bne.social
calckey.social
calckey.art
chaosfem.tw
cloudisland.nz
eigenmagic.net
gamepad.club
gamers.rip
gayfr.social
lgbtqia.space
mastodon.art
mastodon.au
mastodon.scot
meemu.org
mendeddrum.org
mstdn.ca
mstdn.games
ohai.social
old.mermaid.town
oslo.town
paquita.masto.host
social.satan-speaks.com
social.tulsa.ok.us
social.uden.ai
social.veraciousnetwork.com
solarpunk.moe
stop.voring.me
sunny.garden
syd.social
tech.lgbt
tenforward.social
theblower.au
thecanadian.social
toot.cat
toot.lgbt
tooters.org
tsukihi.me
union.place
wig.gl
woof.tech

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@futzle mstdn.ca, mstdn.games and tech.lgbt have all announced they’ve got room. Mstdn.ca is open signup while the other two (I believe) are manual.

Edited to correct incorrect instance name in OP.

Octavia con Amore Feb 10, 2023

@cautionwip @futzle Is the spelling on games.lgbt correct? I can't seem to find it for some reason

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@OctaviaConAmore @futzle

I'm an idiot. It's mstdn.games

Sorry.

It's just that it's specifically positioning itself as a safe space for queer gamers, afaiu, so my sleepy brain conflated the two factors and came up with that. yeesh. Gonna edit the OP so noone else gets misled.

Octavia con Amore Feb 10, 2023

@cautionwip @futzle I'm glad to know my tech isn't malfunctioning today (≧∀≦)

Do you happen to know the character limit on there, by chance?

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@OctaviaConAmore @futzle Only on mstdn.ca, which is the baseline 500.

Octavia con Amore Feb 10, 2023

@cautionwip @futzle
Awww. From what I've gathered so far, it seems that mastodon.art is 500 and tech.lgbt is, quite suitably, 1024 (*‘ω‘ *)

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@OctaviaConAmore @futzle There's a server out there someone mentioned that has like 50k+ character limit, based on something about The Bee Movie, but damned if I can recall it now.

Octavia con Amore

@cautionwip @futzle toot.cat seems to be basically unlimited (it's set to something like 1M+). The premise is that character limits are just a misguided attempt at emulating the blue bbq bird site and that it's stupid (which I agree with). At this point, tech.lgbt is at the top of my short list because of its 1024 character limit and, honestly, I really wish there just wasn't a default character limit in any practical sense (I say while truncating one thought off of this comment)

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@OctaviaConAmore @futzle I go back and forth about that. On the hand, yes, it’s absolutely an arbitrary limit and an artificial constraint.On the other, I think that constraint minimizes chaff & enforces tight writing. It’s also a creative boundary like a haiku, IMO.
Plus it’s easier to doom-scroll through micro-blogs than macro.
But hey, that’s one goal of this protocol, AFAIU : to make social media more personally useful & try out new modalities.
And always : Chacun à son goût! :)

Octavia con Amore Feb 10, 2023

@cautionwip @futzle I think you've definitely got a good point about the browsability of it. Unfortunately, as tight as I can make my writing (and as many of my posts might fit into that limit), it's really annoying when I have to break up 1 post into 3~5 at really odd points, badly damaging the readability and flow. If people want to write haiku, that's great, but there's a reason I'm a musician, not a poet.

Reddit is really comfortable in that regard, but just doesn't have the sense of commu

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@OctaviaConAmore @futzle

🤣

Nice. :)

Octavia con Amore Feb 10, 2023

@cautionwip @futzle I initially did try to pear down my post to make it fit, but then I figured maybe I could use not just the meaning of words, but the shape of words to convey the experience better (≧∀≦)

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@OctaviaConAmore @futzle See?It’s a joke that’s only possible due to the context and medium. And a good one at that.

Octavia con Amore Feb 10, 2023

@cautionwip @futzle And the point of the joke is that the 500-character post limit hinders my writing in a real and practical way. I'd much rather not have to and just write out what I mean to say (which is why I'm moving to an instance with a higher character limit (・∀・))

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@OctaviaConAmore @futzle Totally fair. :) I’d honestly enjoy a larger limit, but I also take pleasure in the crafting limitations that force me to play with my words.