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: Tags: Social Media Source Type: blogs