@shibao @shibao yee mastodon is pretty much the only one ever talked about. 95+% of mastodon instances subscribe to a pretty much standardized instance block list. Ergo new people who only know about mastodon will never see any fun stuff, only woke stuff, and they won't even know the fun stuff exists.

I was lucky in that I knew about Mastodon from pawoo. I made an account on pawoo and played with it for a few minutes and decided to spin up my own and see if I could find English speakers. I figured I'd get board with it within a week or two and I'd move on to something else.

Here I am over 4 years later still hosting it. Except now I have around $3k worth of computer equipment just for hosting it. I also have a Cornbread that fedi helped me afford to take in which I'm eternally grateful for.