Which are your 3 favorite instances? Except for your own (the one you live on).
And why?
My own answer to the above question (click on this message to see the thread):
https://witches.town Love the name, and they were the first somewhat open instance which focused on LGBT+
https://ephemeral.glitch.social, Kinda cheating because I do have an account there. But toots which delete themselves after a while. Sweet sweet release!
https://tenforward.social Star Trek RP stuff, which has actually gotten me interested in Star Trek. What!?
One extra:
https://a.weirder.earth It's in the name
@maloki
- witches.town
- simstim.club
- glitch.social
@maloki uhhhhh I can repost if you wanted reasons
@vahnj I did ask why :)
@maloki
- witches.town- very friendly people with a very pretty reflavor
- simstim.club- kinda an OG masto buddy club
- glitch.social- Bea is good and so are her users and her site
@maloki mammouth.cafe for interesting philosophical conversation - the others have been covered already
mastodon.art - For the number of artists submitting their work. It's a wonderful collection from all sorts of artists of all different tastes
cybre.space - Lots of hackers and generally techy people. Cyberpunks too ;)
mstdn.jp - Kitty pics galore! Also, I'm brushing up on Japanese and it's a nice way to grab conversational sentences that people actually use
BTW, I use this tool to preview instances :
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#cybre.space
Because it does a great job cultivating my particular strain of counterculture expression :3
#tenforward.social
Because it's amusing as hell to me to watch star trek personalities engaging with the network.
#awoo.space & #witches.town
Okay, so this is cheating a bit... but there are no rules anywhere.
Kobolds! Witches! Awoo!
What I'm saying is they are some real magical people there :3
@maloki I haven't checked a ton of them out, but I like:
https://pawoo.net, for anime stuff
https://anticapitalist.party, for socialism
https://oulipo.social, for being super weird (also my coworker is the admin!)
@maloki Only really checked out the forward.social but it's awesome
Been a life-long trekkie, it's a space where I can geek out about my favourite sci-fi future near-utopia among other like-minded people
@maloki Blasted auto correct
tenforward.social
@bgcarlisle @maloki Hmm Star Trek roleplaying feels almost like a radical political act in this climate.
IS SPACE COMMUNISM CORRUPTING OUR YOUTH AND POISONING THEIR MINDS TO THE JOYS OF CAPITALISM
Yes. Yes, it is.
@bgcarlisle @maloki @natecull fully automated gay space communism, to be precise!
witches.town because of awesome community of wonderful people and themed modified UI.
mastodon.art because curator
creativity.cafe because glitch
cybre.space because interface.
yeah i know it's 4.
@maloki
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https://tootplanet.space/🌏💨—lovely ☄️place for creatives, writers, artists AND has cool ✨UI crafted w galaxy🌌 luv by @InspectorCaracal
https://witches.town/ 💫—they toot spells filling your life w positive energy & consumes your imagination in the best way possible w [=] equality, beauty, art & more!
https://cybre.space/—
because
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@maloki glitch.social — because Bea does lots of interesting things and several other people who routinely make my day way better are there.
icosahedron.website — three of my favourite people on mastodon are on there.
witches.town — their customizations are cute, their inhabitants are nice, and also more people I really like are there.
@maloki I should clarify that this is reliant on excluding both mastodon.social and toot.cat as instances where I live.
glitch.social - the newest in Mastodon straight off the press
witches.town - name is super cool
mastodon.art - seeing more art on Mastodon makes me happy
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https://glitch.social/ - @bea is cool and the glitchpeople are our friends
https://tenforward.social/ - cause star trek (DS9 roleplay <3)
https://awoo.space/ - awooooooooooo!
@maloki awoo.space: feels like such a nice and inclusive place, the only instace I know of that uses whitelisting
cybre.space: first instance where I really felt at home, got to watch it grow from less than 100 people to almost 600
witches.town: great community and theming, makes me want to be a cool witch too
@maloki it's not the instances, it's people :(
@safertohatethem I know, but we have follow Friday hashtags which will be going around today for that.
There are a lot of clever domain names out there, which was part of what I was trying to get at. 😊
@maloki I see!
@maloki
witches.town most of my friends are there.
I don't have any other favorite instance.
@maloki Toot.cat, awoo.space, computerfairi.es. Because they're nice people ^_^
(There are more of course, but you said only 3.)
@Kimiko_0 you can add more if you want. 😊
@maloki Then social.wxcafe.net, glitch.social and mastodon.art are three more instances I recommend to newcomers for being places with nice people ^_^
@maloki witches.town because witches
glitch.social because lots of cool friends are there
and mastodon.art because i've seen loads of cool art and artists from that instance
@maloki Wow, it's really to choose only three of them. I would say:
— https://computerfairi.es/, because they are nice people and because their theme is beautiful
— https://aleph.land/, since they are the Witches Town's closest neighbors
— https://kitty.town/, because safe place and kitties
But it was really hard to choose.
@maloki
Mamot.fr
Framapiaf.org
Pirateparty.be
French speaking and free software oriented :)
@maloki oulipo.social, for you and I can toot skillfully without that fifth Latin glyph
tenforward.social, because a social network federation needs the Federation
scholar.social, a really promising theme for an instance, I think.
@bortzmeyer how about no. I really wanted to end yesterday on a positive note(after 4days of draining drama), which we did. And as a result it also let me start today on a positive note.
But hey, if you want to spread vitriol in the fediverse, be my guest, you are allowed to toot what you want.
@maloki kitty.town, witches.town, anticapitalist.party, and all the other instances that don't hesitate to exclude toxic behaviour.
@bortzmeyer please stop hijacking people's posts.
If you want to discuss that topic you can make your own thread.
You already know what I wanted out of this thread, if you're going to wilfully come in and ruin it I won't be able to take you in good faith.
@bortzmeyer I may have used the wrong word, but I am you that very well know what I mean.
However, if you don't you can ask me to clarify and I'll answer.
@maloki octodon.social and anticapitalist.party are pretty cool
@Antanicus @maloki I agree comrade, although I've found octodon.social (unfortunately) quieter for me and to have more reluctant interations/followers than here on anticapitalist.party (and I've grown to quickly really like witches.town and recommend it if that's your thing). After a couple of weeks (I'm still pretty new to masto, though I started on quitter.se a while back) I feel like anticapitalist.party and witches.town are my "home instances". *solidarity*
https://soc.ialis.me/ looks great, taste even better
https://chaos.social/ because @ordnung
https://social.wxcafe.net/ because cool people
Special mention to cybre.space, toot.cafe, awoo.space, octodon.social, witches.town and mst3k.interlinked.me that didn't make it to the top, but are cool and have cool people and you should check them out too
@maloki
- social.targaryen.house (because they allow nazis and died from it)
- ika.moe (because they allow nazis)
- social.imirhil.fr (because he's suspected of being a terrorist)
@Xowap I'm glad you've found places which suit your needs. 👌😎
sci.fyi - i like the custom icons
witches.town - i love what people are tooting there
soc.ialis.me - socialist cyberpunks tooting in french
1. !troupeau https://herds.eu/ (have a lot of old contact here)
2. https://social.umeahackerspace.se (home of @mmn ) or https://quitter.se (home of @hannes2peer )
3. https://quit.im/ (photo sharing)
Else https://pleroma.soykaf.com or https://community.highlandarrow.com/ (different from other)
For mastodon : https://m.sl-network.fr/ (it's where i have a test account)
Tsatnosk
@maloki cybre.space, for the awesome theme.
anticapitalist.party for the political content.
And mastodon.art for the beautificationofmmy timeline 🖼🎨❤
@maloki Uhm lets see
Soc.ialis.me/ has to be one, great instance and collection of individuals with leftist views and libsoc ideals @admin
The group in Kitty.Town/ for me is pretty amazing, a great project and work from all related. Fun engaging, loving people, and their Code of Conduct is spot on @katya @GinnyMcQueen
I've seen nice toots coming from anticapitalist.party/
@maloki I really don't keep track of which instance is which or who's using it. I just respond to whoever's in my home TL.
@maloki
witches.town => witchies are good
kitty.town => kitties are good
awoo.space => Space doesn't conduct sound, so the howling doesn't hurt my ears and I don't have to go give them a $650 fine.
@maloki I'm going to go with:
https://mastodon.art/ for all of that creativity and inspiration
https://tootplanet.space/ for their fiction
https://wandering.shop/ for their community engagement
Great list of places to check out in this thread. Thanks!
@maloki (well mastodon.art but its where I am, it doesn't count ;) )
https://framapiaf.org/ - open source software users including several artists (if I hadn't discovered mastodon.art first, I probably would have been making my home over there)
https://mstdn.tokyocameraclub.com/ - a lot of good photography that is different than what I see elsewhere.
https://icosahedron.website/ - after all this time (and all these instances) still the prettiest theme I have seen. :)
@maloki anticapitalist.party - it was the first instance I joined and introduced me to anarchism as a serious movement/philosophy (rather than just something 13yo punks think is cool)
toot.cat - just because there seem to be a lot of cool people there
social.coop - cool people, is an actual co-op and I've learned a lot from my conversations with people who live there
@maloki
cybre.space - CYBRE!
music.pawoo.net - I really like their music radio integration!
glitch.social - bleeding edge goodness