Hey friends! I’m looking to sign up for Mastodon and would love to hear what drew you to the server you are on? Also, what are servers with good reputation?

  • ciglrot@lemmy.world
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    mathstodon.xyz

    It’s for people who like mathematics, I found it through a educational YouTuber. It seemed like a good fit for me, plus the name of the server is great.

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      Well according to commenters and posters in some communities, they themselves are the smartest and should be running the show.

    • ren (a they/them)@lemmy.world
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      Same. I like Stux and find a good general instance a great way to discover people and connect.

      Outside of the one time he gut defederated with mastodon.art too reactively, he’s been a fair and good moderator. Not too open (like mastodon.social) and not to overbearing (like mastodon.art)

      With that being said, I do plan on switching to a smaller one once I get some good connections and feel like I’ve done my part to support the Fediverse as a whole. Just find a nice server of queer goofy dorks like me.

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        Now that I’m more aware about federation things and more servers appear in the wild, maybe I’ll change to a smaller one too. But I’m too lazy, and I’ve already changed my first instance to mstdn.social a year ago.

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    deacon.social, as I’m Christian. It’s a niche community, but it works almost as well as the big instances, while defending the Federation system.

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    I have 4 Mastodon accounts, 1 on Vivaldi (as I use this browser), and 3 on Polish servers. My main one is on 101010.pl (largest Polish, can read formatted posts), other ones are on pol.social and mastodon.com.pl. I was also on calckey.pl, but Calckey appararently was not ready for use - the instance is now closing down. I have a Polish /kbin account (on karab.in), and WriteFreely and Mobilizon accounts.

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    I’m on mas.to. Chose it because it’s got a decent UK presence (but isn’t a UK-specific server), is quite popular, and the admin runs it well.

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      Same.

      It’s a good, well-maintained general server. But its not the big default server, which tends to attract spam bots and risks being defederarated from the rest of Mastodon.

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    kolektiva.social, the name is cool and it allows 10 000 long posts. Also, it’s an anarchist instance and being an anarchist I kinda like that.

  • torknorggren
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    I’m on sciences.social, because I am a social scientist. There’s a number for different sciences that are good for keeping up with your field. I don’t know about other occupations but I assume they’re out there. Also, as with all things federated, the server doesn’t matter too much once you get rolling.

  • s4if@lemmy.world
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    I mostly active on my own (non-mastodon fediverse) instance, I do have account on small instance, but it is collecting the dust most of the time.
    Given you are on Lemmyworld, I think it is better to join mastodon.world. It is also owned and managed by te same people who runs lemmyworld. I like their transparency.