New home on #Mastodon! Thanks @daniel for building the foundations of our new small instance: webtoo.ls. @vite, @vitest, and @elk have also moved to it, and you'll soon find other Web open-source projects in our local timeline. Lovely how easy it is to move between instances 🧡

@patak @daniel I keep seeing people changing servers and wondering whether I should do the same. Mastodon.social seems to have resolved its performance issues, and I have a lot of interests I want to follow beyond just tech. What's your thought/feeling on moving instances at this point?

@lindsaykwardell @daniel I think it is a good idea to move to smaller and topical instances. Your local timeline will start having real meaning to you. You probably will know the admins and then increase your trust in how things are handled, and build a collective sense in case you can help with the server expenses or related resources. We also help spread the responsibilities and avoid single points of failure.

@lindsaykwardell @daniel I also read that some small server admins may block the biggest instances because they don't feel they can handle the moderation they want to achieve if their server is exposed to them. I don't know how widespread is this practice, but avoiding the TOP 10 instances is a good way to avoid this issue altogether.

@patak @daniel Yeah, I've heard that too. It's just difficult for me because I'm trying to follow tabletop RPGs, trans/LGBT topics, writing, NASA/space exploration, and all the code/tech stuff. Being on a big instances gives me a big net, and I never have to look at the local feed (which is basically worthless here).

@patak @daniel On the other hand, I'm a moderator on clocktower.social, I could hypothetically just move everything there, but am I cutting off my access to other kinds of content?

It should only affect your local/federated feeds and any trending users/tags - you'll still see all the content from the people you are following, and everything they boost.

@daniel I'm not just following people though, I have a number of tags pinned. Content from servers that federate with mastodon.social appears there, even if I don't follow the individual posters.

For my own instance, I subscribe to a few relays to ensure that I have ways of seeing more posts (including within tags) than I'm explicitly following.