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.

@kissane My partner and I are on our own self-hosted Mastodon (and also Lemmy now) instance.

It's obviously not for everyone, but I personally think the self-hosted route is a pretty good way to go if you have the aptitude and have a bit of experience w/ the fediverse.

Gives you complete control of who you're associating with.