Ruth O'Day4d ago

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 .
Show threadJess👾
@RuthODay2 I saw some other people on Twitter I respected were going here, so I figured it'd be a good place to start. I wanted a large enough instance to not get too embroiled in meta-dramas like far too many trans Discords I'd been in at the time, but still a pretty solid mod team all things considered. So I've stuck around. It's not perfect but it's been stable, great uptime, clean out the worst instances, and when I go to the mods with problems, they almost always are responsive.
Mar 23 at 2:24pmWeb
Show threadRuth O'Day4d ago

@JessTheUnstill

The third option seems to be a catch all, between "I live in Grand Fenwick so grand.fenwick.social seems like a good one" and, at the other extreme, doing background checks on specific people.

Show threadJess👾4d ago
@RuthODay2 Yeah, that's where I voted. It was at least a vibe check based on people who know people, but I'm not going to go down some rabbit hole of individual mods. I figured I'd move if the vibes went badly. And tbh I think I made a good enough choice. After all the .art and fedipact drama of 23 and 24, we still ended up with plenty of good instances federating with us, which is good enough for me.