Great idea for a post series! I also like the "small updates throughout the day" nature of Mastodon, which is how I would use Tumblr if I thought anyone on there was listening, and Twitter if it wasn't so connected to my real name/professional presence. Mastodon is like the Goldilocks - or the littlest bear - of social media for me: it's just right xD
Ironically, though this is the largest instance I'm on it's also the least active for me. I just don't see updates on the local timeline that particularly interest me, and ended up not following a lot of people compared to my other two accounts.
This is exactly my problem with mastodon.social - it's far too big for me to get to know anyone. I joined Mastodon initially because a friend enthused about it, and she uses it in the same way that she does Twitter, but with the advantage of being able to share stuff that's a bit more personal, and to share details about her DnD campaign plans because her group don't follow her on Mastodon. x3 I made an account under my fandom handle because I didn't want yet another RL social media account to maintain and worry about, but as a result, I couldn't follow anyone I knew there besides my one friend (who already knows me as enchantedsleeper, because we met on Gaia Online as teenagers). It was only when I discovered fandom.ink (thanks to Alis and the Federated Fandom Discord) that I realised what it was like to interact with a community you can actually get to know.
I've thought about joining other instances like maybe LGBT.io, or another fandom instance, but I'm worried about splitting my time between too many different instances. I like fandom.ink being a place where I can post anything and everything, not necessarily fandom related, so there wouldn't be any difference between what I post there and what I post in another instance.
Having said that, it would be nice just to explore some of the other instances a bit more, because I have no concept of what other instances are out there except what I've glimpsed in people's handles. Are there any directories or lists people have made of different Mastodon instances?
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Ironically, though this is the largest instance I'm on it's also the least active for me. I just don't see updates on the local timeline that particularly interest me, and ended up not following a lot of people compared to my other two accounts.
This is exactly my problem with mastodon.social - it's far too big for me to get to know anyone. I joined Mastodon initially because a friend enthused about it, and she uses it in the same way that she does Twitter, but with the advantage of being able to share stuff that's a bit more personal, and to share details about her DnD campaign plans because her group don't follow her on Mastodon. x3 I made an account under my fandom handle because I didn't want yet another RL social media account to maintain and worry about, but as a result, I couldn't follow anyone I knew there besides my one friend (who already knows me as enchantedsleeper, because we met on Gaia Online as teenagers). It was only when I discovered fandom.ink (thanks to Alis and the Federated Fandom Discord) that I realised what it was like to interact with a community you can actually get to know.
I've thought about joining other instances like maybe LGBT.io, or another fandom instance, but I'm worried about splitting my time between too many different instances. I like fandom.ink being a place where I can post anything and everything, not necessarily fandom related, so there wouldn't be any difference between what I post there and what I post in another instance.
Having said that, it would be nice just to explore some of the other instances a bit more, because I have no concept of what other instances are out there except what I've glimpsed in people's handles. Are there any directories or lists people have made of different Mastodon instances?