Are you wondering why this place is on so many servers?
There are really important reasons for this, to do with user safety, sustainability, and empowerment of users and grassroots communities. You can read all the reasons here:
On a centralised network like Twitter etc, if owners turn bad, users are stuck there, powerless to do anything. Owners can get away with terrible things.
On decentralised networks, users have real power, and bad owners suffer consequences.
@feditips I’d love to see an account like @FediFollows that suggests smaller instances to follow. I am thinking of joining a smaller instance but don’t really know where to go.
I run one, it's called @FediGarden and there's a website at https://fedi.garden
All of the instances listed are under 50k and obey the Mastodon Covenant. It also includes non-Mastodon servers which obey the covenant's rules. More info at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/
@feditips
Oh sweet! This is perfect