Tech media is picking up on the changes to Mastodon’s sign up process, where the default option is now Mastodon.social. I don’t think funneling more people to one mega-instance is a good idea…

  • Is there a single instance that has veganism required? Maybe that vegan one? But that’s down I think? They probably had like 15 users. Let them have their funny rules instance ^^

    I feel like a few posts with people talking about the rules they or their obscure instance has make the rounds and hundreds of people feel like they’re oppressed by them.

    I am on a fairly strictly moderated instance and I never saw many problem with them, nor with users on the server or on others. Yes, sometimes the rules are enforced, but that’s great, I don’t want follower spam from temporary servers and stuff like that. I couldn’t be on a server that theoretically has an admin but they’re never thinking about the social space they’re creating or actually handling reports.