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If you know someone who is interested in joining Mastodon, here's a short little guide for them about how to choose a server:
https://fedi.tips/which-server-should-i-join-how-do-i-find-out-more-about-a-server/
Hopefully this answers the most commonly asked questions about choosing a server, but let me know if I've missed something!
@feditips Nice guild I will pass it on when people ask me about it.
Question: Do you have a similar guild for Peertube?
I have a page about PeerTube at https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse/ but I'm working on expanding it a bit.
@feditips thank you. This is also good info to know.
@feditips what about this https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/ if the old account was on a server that has disappeared (but still searchable, which is all the weirder)
Because other servers are sometimes down temporarily, servers will show a cached copy of a post for a while after the server has shut down.
However, even these copies usually disappear when your server realises that the other server has shut down.
@feditips ideally it should only be an option to freely choose whenever you want. Or is the idea I might have in mind just to create an instance of mastodon just for myself? I always think about a local profile hub that is able to connect to whatever is wanted.
I'm not sure what you are asking? Sorry 
@feditips choosing a server should just be an option I can set and change whenever I would like. I'm thinking about a local hub that will sync to the chosen server. Probably it's best, just to run its own mastodon instance anyways.
Maybe you would prefer a distributed social network like @manyver_se ? The personal data on a distributed network is stored on your own device, and the servers just help accounts find each other.
@feditips @manyver_se I thought mastodon is already a distributed social network? (Social network vs social media? ) whatever, thanks for mentioning it. I will check it out.
Mastodon is a federated social network, so that there are thousands of servers which talk to each other. Users' account data is stored on the server where they signed up for an account.
Manyverse is a distributed social network, so the user's data is stored on their phone or laptop. They can connect to a server to discover other people, but they don't have to use that server and their data isn't stored there.
Both approaches have advantages.
@feditips @manyver_se there seem to be many similarities. If I set up my own mastodon instance where only my once account is set up, it kind of feels like the described distributed network. What are the disadvantages between federated and distributed? Could there be some kind of hybrid system?
If you set up your own Masto server on a physical machine at home, and no one else was on that server, and everyone else on Masto did the same, then in practical terms it would be similar (though the technology running it would still work very differently).
@feditips Here's an even shorter guide:
Got to https://thecanadian.social
Click sign up...
@feditips You should mention that different instances have different post length limits, and that while the default maximum post lenth is 500 characters, there are many instances that allow a higher limit - the one I use has an 11,000 character limit, for example.
(It would also be great if there were a listing of instances that allow more than 500 character posts, showing what the maximum post length is on each!)
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