• sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    Are there any good mastodon instances? I’ve used kolektiva.social and its OK but I realized it has a “no-tankie” rule. And the explore page is still mostly dumbass libs

    Or maybe mastodon is just ass

    • forcefemjdwon [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      7 days ago

      One of the contradictions of the fediverse is the ease of defederation (or, the flippancy of moderators) completely negates one of the main benefits of federation - not needing multiple accounts. Even “good” instances have probably defederated or been defederated by instances you want to interact with. You can always make your own, though.

      Regardless, https://toots.matapacos.dog/about is run by a Hexbear user

    • LisaTrevor [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 days ago

      mastodon is kind of annoying as I’m pretty sure the explore page shows the most active posts from all federated instances no matter what instance you’re actually on, so you’re always going to see lib shit. you have to look at the instance’s Live Feed to find new local posts, and it’s only sorted by most recent so it’s only minimally useful if you’re lucky

      I’d bemoan the lack of a good M-L instance but we actually have one at toots.matacapos.dog and it’s super dead as far as I can tell

      myself, I just use the FOSS/Linux mastodon to follow some people from that part of the Internet that I like and mostly forget it exists at all

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      6 days ago

      I looked around and it does look like vast majority of instances are either lib or anarchist run. I just ended up spinning up my own with masto.host, but not everybody wants to spend 6 bucks a months on this sort of stuff. :)