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🚨 PSA: If people you know are signing up to Mastodon, please tell them not to sign up on mastodon.social or mastodon.online!

The only reason mastodon.social is in so many people's minds is because it was the first Masto server, but there is nothing special about it. You can interact with just as many people from other servers including the smallest servers. See joinmastodon.org/servers

(For example, my @homegrown account is on a server with no other members, but has over a thousand followers.)

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Jen Rohrig

@feditips I just signed up here because I couldn't figure out where else to sign up.. would it be better to move to another server? If that's something that can be done easily? Delete and resignup elsewhere? or just stay now that I'm here?

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Ralph Crützen

@feditips @homegrown Is is possible to move from one instance to another?

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teledyn

@feditips @homegrown

Please also advise nodes who expect subscribers fill out their About page so folks know who they are, what they stand for (or won't) and why they are different. So many just have the default.

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Gibbalicious

@feditips @homegrown is it a good idea to switch to another instance? I joined yesterday and didn’t really know any better.

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Jochen Fromm

@feditips @homegrown what can you do to avoid the message "older posts from other servers are not displayed"? How can you see the older posts from other servers, especially from the people you follow? #newhere #neuhier

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Below the rdar://

@feditips @homegrown Now I am here, any reason to move?

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Rye

@feditips but.... I came over here... I guess I will have to figure out how to change servers at some point then... cause I came here BECAUSE it was the biggest. I am the first of my friends to come over and I am trying to learn as much as I can before I talk about it on my stream tomorrow....

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purple pumpkaboo

@feditips @homegrown if it doesn’t matter where I make the account why not make keep it here? Just to make it less centralised?

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Canascott

@feditips @homegrown So how do we switch?

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Tony Bark

@feditips @homegrown Speaking of homegrown, glad I spun up my own instance when I did. Dodged one hell of a bullet. Although, I can't imagine how my dedicated host feels with the sudden influx in traffic.

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Dušan :arch: 🇷🇸 ⚛️

@feditips @homegrown @wizzwizz4 The federation fallacy is confirmed time and time again.

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Stefan

@feditips @homegrown a very good reminder!👍

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bitbonk

@feditips @homegrown
But most of my buddies from twitter seem to be on those servers, isn’t is a good idea to join the server with most of my buddies?

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