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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
Weird, calckey doesn't work in my browser, Librewolf. I guess calckey does some fingerprinting or what?
Librewolf is a custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security, and freedom.
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.