i see an argument that mastodon.social is needed for onboarding

so, let’s do something very scientific: which fedi instance did you start with?

(boost for bigger sample)

(mastodon forks count as mastodon)

@xarvos mastodon.social because when I left Twitter in 2022 this was the only instance I knew of. after that, I stopped using it for half a year because I didn't understand how fedi worked. in mid-2023, I moved to a calckey instance and use it until mid-2024, then I started self-hosted my own fedi instances and experimented with numerous Fedi software options. finally I chose mitra to create this instance and don't think switching again.

@xarvos I've selfhosted gotosocial, pleroma, akkoma, iceshrimp.net, and mitra. I dislike heavyweight software, so I haven't attempted to selfhost mastodon or misskey.

@xarvos hmm I almost forgot about wafrn. I've hosted it too.

@xarvos@outerheaven.club SHITPOSTER.CLUB good times ​​ (I just saw it on pleroma's website)

@xarvos
misskey looks so much cooler than mastodon, it should be the first thing a newbie sees.

@mansalia and all the features! alas, the UI seems very slow and i can’t bear it

@xarvos OStatus, identi.ca.

surprised to see some people self-host their first instance 👀