Soliciting personal recs for great medium-sized to large instances you love that aren't defederating over personal conflicts between admins and that *do* use Oliphant's level-zero (or greater) blocklist. Preferably not locked to a locality.
If you like an instance but don't know anything about its blocklist, I appreciate you! But please don't recommend it in this specific spot. <3
@kissane I was looking into this and this website was the best resource I found:
https://mastodon.help/instances/en
It shows the blocklists for certain domains, which I then cross-referenced with the fedi pact list, but unfortunately it's not exhaustive as instances can choose to hide the other servers they are moderating.
Would be interested to know if you come across a better method. Cheers!
@kissane Fair enough, and I completely agree.
I'm trying to be patient, I know some updates related to this are coming. And I have some hacks in place to help around this, but I wouldn't expect people who have better things to do with their time to do the same.
(Although I do appreciate your suggestion, @noracodes, this is a neat tool!)
I'm trying to collect ideas on how to encourage people to use small instances, i.e. with at most triple digit users. The one complaint, I'm aware of is: > Honestly the problems with missing replies penalizes the users of small instances so much that I'm kind of leery? From https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110742380729717269
List of some good, but granted not a writeup beyond a list.
https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109330935262775703 (Obv cant go via your instance)
Some for of instance like.. rating service or something would be neat. With a way to have recommendations of similar instances so the load can be spread out a bit.
Other instances you can check out, that are either creatively themed, or have a similar ruleset and Code of Conduct to .art ^.^ https://bytetower.social https://indiepocalypse.social https://comicscamp.club https://fandom.ink https://comics.town https://photog.social https://socel.net (animation) https://peoplemaking.games https://gamedev.lgbt https://writing.exchange https://artsio.com https://jugglers.network https://booktoot.social (kid lit) https://sonomu.club (music) (...)
Erin Kissane
Aryasheel
Stefan Bohacek
notsoloud
Helge
Just Jo
Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)