The Fediverse / Mastodon

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The Fediverse

If you want an easy way to discover reliable good servers, there are human-curated server lists at fedi.garden and joinmastodon.org/servers

All the servers listed on these sites have to comply with certain standards of technical reliability and moderation.

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Information links

• Lots of information, views, and help can be found on the website of Elena Rossini

• What is the Fediverse

• Fedi.Tips

• Diving into the fediverse

Warning

General

Avoid diving in without doing a bit of research! Do Not just join the first / largest instance you see suggested (Most likely mastodon.social, or mas.to, ...) or another of the huge instances. They pose a problem to the decentralised nature of the Fediverse. You can read up about this on Fedi.Tips and a thread with more info.

Mastodon.cloud

Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.

• Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023
• There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported
• The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes
• Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud

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