Please direct your friends to joinmastodon.org or another instance of your choice like octodon.social, toot.cat or toot.cafe, etc. mastodon.social is "default" choice for a lot of people and it's getting kinda hammered right now.
@Gargron Better to close registrations on mastodon.social for a while. And add some recommended instances on the front page (+ joinmastodon.org).
BTW: maybe it's a good idea to filter out the pre-1.6 instances on that list on joinmastodon. We don't want to disappoint people. cc: @TheKinrar
@jeroenpraat @Gargron if Eugen thinks that's a good idea I can add this feature to the API
@TheKinrar @jeroenpraat I like that idea. >= 2.0 only would be nice
@jeroenpraat @Gargron 2.0 for custom emoji
@TheKinrar @Gargron Also gives instance admins a reason to update 😉
@Gargron @TheKinrar Great you like it. I chose 1.6, cause of ActivityPub direct/private posts. But 2.0 would also be an idea. And that in the future only the last 2 major releases (except when there's a breakage).