My administrator has announced that he will be shutting down the server in a couple months, mostly due to rising costs. Sad to see this happen, but I suspect it will be a fact of life in this ecosystem. So now I’m reading the “how to migrate” documents. The technical piece seems simple enough and I’ve looked at the list of other servers. Just wondering if anyone has thoughts on how to select a new home?
The good news is that I don’t have to rush to make the change! @nathan gave us plenty of advance warning.
@wmjohnston06 Thanks Mike. It was a difficult decision, but I see that you understand. Thank you.
@wmjohnston06 wondering if wptoots might be a good one - @danielauener is on it, and I've seen it around in some other places. He might be able to give his 2 cents, or there might be others he knows of..?
@jake4480 @danielauener Thanks, Jake. I appreciate the suggestion.
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My €0.02: find an instance which hosts your main interest - in my case it was easy, metal music. I bet there must be several servers with cooking as the main topic.
My €0.03: self host or have your instance hosted.
@wmjohnston06 on how to select a new home, this site is very helpful imho https://instances.social/
Mastodon instances

@MetalSnake Thanks! The variety of sites / interests / user counts is really interesting.