@feditips When one Mastodon instance goes down, 99% of the network is still alive.

@feditips oh is that why I get a 401 error in loggin in?

@feditips Thanks! I just sent an email. I would love to see mrtodon.net added!

@feditips where was #JohnMastodon?

@feditips Hey there. I feel my instance could shoulder a few more users after I’ve been testing it for a few months now. How would I get on the list? Thx! And do you happen to know a place specifically for server admins to discuss best practices?

@feditips Hi

@feditips Here's another fedi onboarding place but for furries: https://furryfediverse.org/

@feditips There is fedi.life :)

@feditips I also made a little list with instances that are very well made: https://web.koyu.space/fedilist

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Thank you - and love the curated list of accounts you post to highlight new people to follow.
I have a site where I started to store posts that list accounts to follow on a given topic. I wanted a place where anyone (whichever instance they’re on or however big their network is) to find lists of accounts that might help them make important connections e.g. starting on mastodon, job listings, law folk, news orgs, mastodon admins, etc. Although you can bookmark these yourself or add people to a list, I thought it would be handy to have somewhere you could do a quick search for a post - and from there link back to mastodon
I’m only doing this in my spare time so right now just 11 lists.

https://recknsense.com/recknlist/

@feditips @KuJoe might want to get mindly.social listed on here

@feditips recognize that each time you widen the landscape, you increase confusion. The whole value of joinmastodon is that a single point of entry assures newcomers they've gone to the right place. For example, you wouldn't want multiple web addresses to apply for social security, right? When you go to ssa.gov, you're quickly assured you've gone to the right place. Far better, IMO, to secure the system against attack!

@feditips thx, leah

@feditips Yep, I run a Maston instance (gamepad.club) that has signed up to the Covenant. How can I help?

@feditips We also have an independent directory of 🇨🇦 Canadian instances here: https://mastodonserver.ca/

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My mstdn.plus account has been frozen and not updating for the last 3 days! I created this new mstdn.social account but I can't seem to move my followers from plus to social. It's just so disappointing as I had to post a #FollowMeFollowYou notification to all my followers so I can rebuild my network.

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Is Elon's money at work? Or is it one of his cultists?

@feditips Anyone know if there’s a good instance for Southern California? Come on, LA!

@feditips DNS `SRV` records could be useful. Each existing instance could publish itself + a few others (that it already exchanges with), so that querying any instance DNS records gives a first batch of possible servers, and then one can query those for more and so on. A web page (or multiple ones) can be build on top of this with regular pulling. This leverage the DNS as decentralized database.