Wandering Adventure Party

@hikingdude ja, muss sagen, das klang alles bis vor kurzem noch ganz anders aus. Man kann nur hoffen, dass sie jetzt aus der Knete kommen und endlich mal ein paar aktive Schritte gehen statt nur zu reden

@hikingdude ach gucke. Das glaub ich wenn's sehe 🥹

@caiocgo I love the Vivaldi browser and if I hadn't already joined a nice instance I probably would have gone to Vivaldi @rufustheduck

@caiocgo *butts in* mastodon.social has a ton of problems exactly because it's the biggest server that is also barely moderated. It's twitter 3.0 and the source of many headaches for many admins because it's open sign-up and spouts endless russian bots, phishing attacks and spam accounts that rivals X. If you hear about spam and phishing problems on mastodon there's a 110% chance it comes from that instance. Rampant racism on top of everything. Many smaller instances decide to block it, restrict access to it or mute it. Which means a lot of the fediverse is shut out, which makes mastodon.social one of the least federated instances. It literally is a counter point to the whole idea of federating and the fediverse. Make of that what you will *sees myself out* @rufustheduck

@rufustheduck I agree with people that moving away from mastodon.social is a good idea. It's a good place to start, but it's badly moderated and endangers the decentralisation aspect of the fediverse because it's so big. It draws in dangerous phishing bots and waves of spam accounts, so many smaller instances have muted or blocked mastodon.social.

As to where to move that's the harder question. There are instances for locations, interests, hobbies. Rule of thumb is - not too small as they're in danger of closing quicker. Check the moderation rules and see if they fit. All the better if they have an application process to manually weed out bots and spam accounts.

I know there are lists of active instances around, maybe @FediTips has some lying around

Or go through your followers and pick one with a cool name to check out first 🤭

@rufustheduck 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

@EUCommission cigarette butts. Barely anyone knows they're plastic and not just paper. Not even talking about the poison hidden in them.

@lindajoyflow Hallo und willkommen! Malbegleiterin klingt faszinierend. Was verbirgt sich dahinter?