Tech can be weird sometimes.
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to lynnskyi@mastodon.social last edited by
@lynnskyi they aren't owned by Mastodon Gmbh (the company) so they get way less users.
I'd say Mastodon.world and mstdn.social are good alternatives, but I'm not 100% sure.
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lynnskyi@mastodon.socialreplied to beaware@social.beaware.live last edited by
@BeAware Okay! That's good to know. I know, at least when I was searching for a good general instance, Mastodon World wasn't accepting any new users. I also wish instances would display their character limit. That would be very helpful.
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to lynnskyi@mastodon.social last edited by
@lynnskyi I agree regarding the character limit and any other info that makes them different from other instances.
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lynnskyi@mastodon.socialreplied to beaware@social.beaware.live last edited by
@BeAware I don't need millions of characters, but 500 is too few when posting about books, as I so often do. And I don't have the technical skills to host my own instance.
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to lynnskyi@mastodon.social last edited by
@lynnskyi well, maybe you will get some recommendations. I don't browse instances because I am one of those nerds with their own instance.
I do hope you eventually find a good place for you though. It's hard sometimes, I know.
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lynnskyi@mastodon.socialreplied to beaware@social.beaware.live last edited by
@BeAware Good for you. I'm okay here. The only thing that bugs me is that when the instance is down for software updates, they don't seem to announce it.
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to lynnskyi@mastodon.social last edited by
@lynnskyi I bet that's annoying. Though, being they're owned by the company, I'd hope it wouldn't be down for very long.
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lynnskyi@mastodon.socialreplied to beaware@social.beaware.live last edited by
@BeAware They haven't been down for too long, but it leaves me wondering, when this happens, if I have no Internet, or if my Mastodon client, Mona, is down or what. It's just confusing.
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to lynnskyi@mastodon.social last edited by
@lynnskyi oh yeah. I have this sort of learned behavior that when I notice something not working, I immediately go to Google.
Google doesn't go down very often, so its usually a pretty easy giveaway.
Though, a notice from the admins would be quite nice.
I feel like it's an unfortunate example of the instance being "too big to care", if that makes sense.
Like they're inconveniencing a few hundred thousand at the same time, so they have this dumb thought of "they can't all possibly complain if everyone was having the same issue."
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lynnskyi@mastodon.socialreplied to beaware@social.beaware.live last edited by
@BeAware All they'd have to do is have an annoucement account. Problem solved.