malki !Still trying to figure out the relevance of being in a certain instance vs. another. If I understand right, mastodon.social is "nothing specific, most people are here" and then mastodon.xyz is the one that's "nothing specific except we ban hate speech" ?
Jess Fink@malki there's also a .art and I'm like...should I be there instead?? It probably doesn't matter too much
@JessFink I just registered @wondermark for posting comics. Once we all figure out what's going on here maybe there'll be a mass migration to one of the other instances?
@JessFink oh it didn't show up in text - that account is on mastodon dot art
Tom McHenry
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@Gargron @JessFink @tommchenry weirdly though, I just registered @wondermark and somehow it had already followed a bunch of people? does an instance pre-follow people for you?
Blake C. Stacey@malki @Gargron @JessFink @tommchenry @wondermark I believe it is now common for new accounts to automatically follow the instance administrators (and perhaps others that the admins designate), so that new arrivals aren't confronted with a blank timeline, and they're less likely to miss out on software maintenance notifications and such.