Notice To New mastodon.social Users
First, welcome to open social media!
Second, you've landed on the biggest instance. Think of it like the capital city of the #Fediverse, but there are lots of other cities, towns and villages. Take your time looking around your new home, but also experience other instances.
There's no penalty for creating multiple accounts in the Fediverse.
Just go to [instance address]/explore (ex. https://mstdn.social/explore) click on "Create account" and give it a try.
Fediverse citizens.... If you have an instance you would like to recommend to new users please reply below with a brief description of why you love your instance and include the [instance address]/explore link.
@mastodonmigration also has accounts:
@AstroMigration on universeodon.com https://universeodon.com/explore. This well run instance has 1000 character posts and has a text search function
@ClimateMigration on mastodon.world https://mastodon.world/explore is a very fast instance that is very well administered
Both of these are larger instances. Hopefully, others will post links and descriptions of various other large, medium, small and special interest instances below.
Happy hunting.
@AstroMigration @ClimateMigration
hachyderm.io, an instance for progressive tech nerds.
zeroes.ca for COVID cautious people. I donate to both instances.
To join either of these go to:
https://hachyderm.io/explore
or
https://zeroes.ca/explore
You can also check out:
https://hachyderm.io/about
or
https://zeroes.ca/about
...to learn more about these instances
@mastodonmigration @AstroMigration @ClimateMigration
You could/should setup a migration on here https://cupoftea.social/explore for People that would like Positive and Wholesome Content on their social media. 😀
Not *my* instance (that would be too niche), but if you are from (or happen to like) Paraguay, there is terere.social, which is oriented to my country and was put together by a great guy.
@mastodonmigration
https://Mastodon.green because we use 20 % of membership fees to plant trees 🌳 💚
Over 12 000 trees planted so far
We're relaxed, try it first, become a member if you like it
@mastodonmigration Smutlandia is a smaller but thriving instance for writers & fans of literary erotica. It is an NSFW-positive environment & it is very supportive of artists and writers (there's explicit permission & encouragement to promote your work). I warmly recommend it.
Welcome to the Smutlandia community! This space is for members of the adult content-driven literary arts community. This includes but is not limited to: erotic romance literary erotica fanart of said genres reviews of said genres The goals of our community are to: provide resources and support for our members’ expressive goals promote the adult content-driven literary arts community.
cyberplace.social/explore - fun instance ran by Kevin Beaumont. My personal account is on it.
infosec.exchange - lots of cybersecurity-folks, but open to tech and things outside of infosec.
485 Posts, 358 Following, 226 Followers · Santa Cruz local since 2001 | montereybay.social admin | Sr Technical Program Manager @ AWS Nonprofits
@paul I know Toot has this feature where you can “shift” focuses to another server, but it’s still like switching social networks. Besides it gets tiresome when you have multiple servers you want to follow, especially if there isn’t much activity in many (which is what you’d expect in a smaller community)
It would be very useful if there’s a way to combine “local” (aka “small server” feeds) and “global” feeds into one single feed. That’s how Reddit does it, eg.
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