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  • My recommendation would be to find a local instance - one that’s closest to you - and sign up for that. I’m not in Atlanta, but I am in Georgia, so I signed up for the yall.theatl.social instance (the server is in Atlanta), and I couldn’t be happier. It’s a smaller instance, but I converse regularly with the admins when I have a question or a problem, and they are accessible and always open to suggestions.

    I like it so much that I also use the theatl.social Mastodon instance as my main Mastodon as well. I throw them a few bucks every month to help with costs, and I’m happy to do it.

    I would agree with those who say smaller instances are the way to go.






























    1. Found this through a Google search: Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack:
    • instance blocking
    • comments combination, posts only appear once
    • keyword filter
    • topics (admin-managed feeds)
    • user-managed feeds, public and private
    • tags
    • flairs
    • multi communities
    1. Yes & yes. They’re built on ActivityPub and interact with each other, though the things that PieFed offers that Lemmy doesn’t (like tags) aren’t visible from Lemmy. And Lemmy can subscribe and interact with posts from PieFed.

    2. Yes. There is a way to export all your details through the Lemmy settings and import through PieFed settings, and vice versa.

    3. App support is sparse at the moment, but the Interstellar app (https://interstellar.jwr.one/) for Android works with PieFed.

    4. Can’t think of anything.