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What server should I join? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm thinking about joining mastodon, but I don't know what server to go with, and the list of servers seems to have very little information about each. Right now I think I'll open an account on mastodon.social.

I'd prefer a server with a high character limit and that has access to most other servers.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You can still decide to transfer your account later on, so starting on mastodon.social isn't too bad. https://guide.toot.as/guide/move-mastodon-server/#1-guide-configuration Even if i would suggest to change it, as it kind of beat the decentralization aspect to it, i believe ~80℅ users are just on this default instance. The official website has it's own list of suggested servers per interests and some rules here : https://joinmastodon.org/servers You can search via a minimum maximum character limit here : https://mastodon.help/instances/en

By default, Mastodon servers can access all other servers. It's just the admin who can decide to block other instances on a blacklist for all the users on the instance they use. You can also just block yourself instances or users if you want. As long you don't take a political, shitposting, or fascist one which are often blocked on a lot of instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh I didn't know that, I thought they were locked to the server like Lemmy. Ok then I'll just use masdodon.social for now until I know more about the rest.