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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?

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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on https://mastodon.world, but for personal stuff I created https://ruud.social and for hobbies I run https://pool.social and https://musicworld.social.

Oh and I also have https://calckey.world but I don't post too much there.

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

LOL you run all of those Ruud! LOL

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I run 11 fedi servers in total.

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

certifiable. LOL

[–] vsp@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why, https://mastodon.world of course, since it's also ran by @ruud, the admin of lemmy.world. I feel he knows what he's doing with hosting better than most instances.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure they're welcome to, if they want to spin up their own instances. :D

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

See that would require more than being a keyboard warrior

[–] ciglrot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

mathstodon.xyz

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

[–] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on mstdn.social. The admin is really cool, and the server is big enough to my liking.

[–] ren@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] Kierunkowy74@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Bristlerock@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RxBrad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Linux-Is-Best@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Yinchie@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Maestro@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I thing you can interact with Madtodon from kbin as well. It does both link/threads (lemmy) and microblog (mastodon). That's also what "boost" does. If you boost a post or comment, you retweet (retoot?) it to your microblog.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Linux.pizza because it had open registration at the time I created an account and I am interested in both, Linux and pizzas.

[–] callyral@readit.buzz 2 points 2 years ago
[–] McBinary@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

leftist.network

Seems kind of self-explanatory...

[–] sotolf@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I'm on linux.pizza I'm a linux guy, and the server is administrated by a swedish guy, makes it easier to communicate with the admin. He also has been really great when I've been interacting with him :)

[–] jernej__s@infosec.exchange 1 points 2 years ago

@Thunderdonk4444 https://infosec.exchange/ as evident from me replying through it.

[–] jcrabapple@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I run https://dmv.community for folks in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area, and I run https://pixtagram.social Pixelfed instance.

[–] Mpeach45@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If you can find a server, that is literally local in focus, I recommend that. Literally Geo local.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

tech.lgbt/ it's a bit self explanatory lol

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mastodon.social because I didn't want to spend time looking at a whole bunch of different servers and filter through them all. It's the biggest, so I just went on there.

[–] Yinchie@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Same. Furthermore, i liked the .social part haha.

[–] jetsetdorito@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

infosec.exchange, I don't work in infosec but it's a cool community

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That was one of the two that Deviant Ollam recommended in a popular video

[–] AbsentAria@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on neovibe.app however federation over there is completely broken right now

[–] AbsentAria@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Update on this, federation on neovibe is fixed now

[–] mrpibb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I recently joined Fosstodon and so far it seems like a nice and well moderated place to connect with others about tech and open source.

[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

mastodon.world, clearly the best!

[–] smolgumball@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I'm over at https://mastodon.gamedev.place and enjoy it a ton.

There are a number of prolific game designers as well as tons of indie devs sharing knowledge + life updates. A very cozy instance without any hateful BS.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

fosstodon.org - They are very competent people and there to stay.

[–] s4if@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] ckempo@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago

I'm on mastodonapp.uk for the same reason I'm on feddit.uk; I sought out a local instance.

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