Choosing the best Mastodon server
TL:DR – There are lots of Mastodon servers, choosing the best is down to personal needs. Choose one in your niche that has a good number of users, more than one admin, and a good financial base.
If you’re new to Mastodon, then have a quick read of my Mastodon FAQ to get an idea of what it’s all about.
Social media tool Mastodon is essentially a network of connected websites all running the same software. Users refer to these websites as instances. You can think of an instance as being a specialist group on another famous social media system. But each instance or server is owned and managed independently rather than being controlled for the benefit of a billionaire and shareholders.
Once you’re ready to grab Mastodon by the tusks you will need to choose a server or instance with which to sign up. The following list are the servers most commonly used by the people I follow.
sciencemastodon.com
scicomm.xyz
mastodon.org.uk
astrodon.social
mastodon.me.uk
mstdn.science
genomic.social
ecoevo.social
fediscience.org
mastodon.nz
mastodon.green
med-mastodon.com
toot.wales
aus.social
newsie.social
mastodon.scot
qoto.org
mastodonapp.uk
masto.ai
fosstodon.org
This list is substantially the same as when I last did an analysis of the most popular Mastodon servers, but with a few important exceptions.
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Social Media Source Type: blogs