Newbie to “mastodon” (is it capitalized?) but aren’t we all? I was okay with my little corner of Twitter till Musk, but got this acct last Nov in case Twitter self-immolated. Went with mastodon based on a thread by @Teri_Kanefield (a good follow) about Twitter alternatives. I picked mastodon because it’s NOT OWNED SO IT CANNOT BE SOLD!
The one daunting part of mastodon is picking a server … I just chose & it’s been fine. I’d like to hear how anyone else picked a server?

@bronakins @Teri_Kanefield I learned of Mastodon around the same time Nov ish.
I joined a local server/instance, but ultimately, so long as the server you are on is run well, it doesn't really matter too much.

If I was joining now I'd look at the Mozilla instances, if they are accepting new users. Mostly due to me being a Firefox user forever.

Good luck and welcome 🐘 👋