mstdn.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

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Hey new people and those thinking of joining, you do NOT need to sign up on huge servers!

You can follow and interact with people on any server from any server, the servers are connected.

It would really, really help the network right now if you could sign up on medium or small size servers. You will still be able to follow and interact with whoever you want, and the network as a whole will work much better.

A good safe place for beginners to find servers to join is joinmastodon.org/servers

joinmastodon.orgServersFind where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.

@feditips why give people the choice, since they don’t understand what a distributed system is? Just put them on the least loaded server at the time they sign up.

FediTips has moved!

@Mmwatson

Servers each have their own rules about what is allowed, what their atmosphere is like, what kind of people they are aimed at etc.

I don't think well-run servers would agree to it if they were assigned users at random by an outside authority.

@feditips if i can see posts from other servers, then my servers rules apply to those posts?

@feditips @Mmwatson so in fact it actually matters quite a lot what server you are on… which is part of the problem users are having. That and all the weird problems with finding people or people having the same username on different servers.