Mastodawn

Erin Kissane Jul 1, 2023

Hey masto, if you’ve been here for more than a few weeks and you really like your instance and have a minute, could you weigh in here and name it and say why you like it? We have new folks coming in and I never know where to point them for real-talk instance recs.

Would love to know whether your instance is open to new people, whether it strictly moderates abuse (racist, misogynist, anti-LGBT, disability-linked), how aggressive its defed policies are, whether it’s technically stable.

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Sam Levine

@kissane Mine (urbanists.social) is open to new people (sometimes we have approval requirements, sometimes not). The admins are good at moderating, helped by the fact that we aren't very large (I think 1.5K active users) and a chunk of accounts are professional orgs. The local feed isn't to everyone tastes, though plenty of us post stuff unrelated to urbanism. I think we're technically stable, but I'm not a techy. And we do defed regularly from icky places (the list is public).