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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by 8bitsrule on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:41PM (#25824983)
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!

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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by Vinnl on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:24AM (#25831517)
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.
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