If anyone is looking for a nice instance of Mastodon to join, http://cybre.space is good & it opens in about 20 minutes for 1 hour. :)
@ColinTheMathmo Well, if I were in your place and I was uncertain about Mastodon generally, I would probably prefer to not have more accounts to get bogged down in! And I've never tried another instance so I couldn't say for sure how exactly this one is different from others. You could shout it out into the void as a general question - hackertribe.io vs cybre.space - and see what happens? XD
@cassolotl what do you mean by "good"?
@BradyDale Lots of up-time, things seem to work, nice admin, nice people, not too big, not too small, rules in line with mastodon.social... I can't think of anything else! Does that help?
@BradyDale (I mean, I posted this to Twitter and it got cross-posted here, so I figured most people on here would be pretty uninterested by this news generally!)
@cassolotl I am interested in the moment when instances start to really have distinct identities beyond... lots of shitposters and non-shitposters
@BradyDale Fair! :) don't think I can help you with that because I'm too new to the instance and have never joined another one yet, so, it's up to you. :)
@cassolotl i don't really think instances have much personality yet
i don't even think folks realize they should
the "why" of instancing is still pretty vague, but it is interesting to see folks get there
@BradyDale Yeah, that makes sense!
@cassolotl Missed that cutoff, whoops. But I kind of like this one. (Spaaaaaace!)
@brewsternorth Oh yes, this is an excellent address, congrats! 🎉
@cassolotl I'm already registered on hackertribe.io - should I also register on cybre.space? I'm still really uncertain about Mastodon in general ... Thoughts?