Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media
by 8bitsrule on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:41PM
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I'd guess that most instances with several thousand users will be around for quite some time. There are lists that show that.
Most instances have a public page you can check out to see the instance's vibe. EG https://mastodon.xyz/public , https://fosstodon.org/public
Once you've found a new instance, you can transfer your followers to it. This Feditips page tells how to move your 'mutes, blocks etc'.
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/105317854827203241
Remove that number at the end and there are a lot more Feditips. One tip: you can easily subscribe to any Mastodon account through an RSS reader ... add '.rss' to the account's public page, there's your feed!
Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media
by Vinnl on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:24AM
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Yeah I know how to move my account, I just don't know where to yet :) I don't really care about an instance's vibe, since I only check my follower timeline anyway. That said, only a user count (especially without knowing how many of those are actually active users) doesn't give me too much confidence; I'd like to know who's behind it, and how and why they're going to keep it online in the long term.
(And ideally one that lets me maintain my own blocklist rather than doing that for me, but I'm already accepting that at mastodon.social, so that's not a deal-breaker.)