OK friends: For legal academics who are curious about Mastodon but unsure what it's about or concerned over the scaling issues at some of the big general purpose instances (ahem, http://mastodon.social), I've just started a new instance at https://mastodon.lawprofs.org. /1
I am running this on my own dime so for now I'm individually screening new accounts to try to keep this a lawprof-oriented community and keep its size manageable. /2
I'm available by DM or email to talk you through getting started, cross-posting with legacy accounts, and migrating over your followed/follower lists. /3
If you're already on another instance but either want to maintain a second one for lawprof stuff or migrate over to ease congestion on one of the bigger instances, this may be for you. Follow me at https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@jnsheff . Hope to see you there.