Mastodawn

What led you to choose your current Mastodon instance?

Please boost.

	None/I saw the name and clicked
	Special interest (Geography, LGBTQ2IA+, vocation/hobby)
	General research on the instance, beyond their initial blurb/code of conduct
	Specific research on the people (police record, credit rating, etc.)

Poll ends at Mar 30 at 11:46am.

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Juniper 🏳️‍⚧️🌲4d ago

@RuthODay2
Since my current instance was a migration when the previous one shut down, part of my reason was having connections with people on the instance, plus some general observations of fedi drama/callouts/whatever

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Ruth O'Day 4d ago

@eruonna

If you had some knowledge but didn't seek specific documents, I would put that in the third response.

If I had to do it over again, I would add two responses, one for having some previous knowledge of the instance or people running it and one for the people hosting their own instance. Both of those kind of fall between blindly clicking because the instance has my country name in it and running a police check on someone.

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Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋

4d ago

@RuthODay2 @eruonna I'm one of the founders of my instance. But it's also not a single-user instance. But that's kind of a weird case and I guess would fall under "knew the people"

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Ruth O'Day

@faithisleaping @eruonna

I would put that in general research beyond the blurb, unless you did something like getting a credit report document to get a bank loan to buy the equipment to start the instance.