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@kristinkelly@nerdculture.de Great question! It can be rough at the start, for sure!

When I was new, I had a friend who had been on Mastodon for a long time, and I asked her how she navigated, and she explained why I ought to leave mastodon.social. When I moved, it was like the world opened up! I was able to see so much more of the Fediverse, and began making more friends.

When I look at new instances, I'm looking to see:

• What are their guidelines?

• Do they have moderation objectives in place, and do they seem to have a plan for dealing with folks who go against the guidelines?

• Is it one person running a large instance alone, or is it a team that helps each other?

• Also, feel free to ask! You can say, "I'm thinking of joining this instance, have folks heard anything about this place?"

• If you know of an instance you do like and trust, many times those instances will have lists in their About section on which servers they avoid. Those lists can be illuminating!

Migration question!

I know that if I start the migration process to move from weirder.earth to another instance, that my weirder.earth account will freeze and forward folks.

I also know that I can, in the future, come back and stop the forwarding process, and reinstate my weirder.earth account.

My question is, if I were to stop the forwarding process in the future, will followers who moved with me from w.e. to new.place suddenly stop following me at new.place and come back to following me at w.e?

@DaNanner@mastodon.coffee @katebowles@mastodon.social @ansate@weirder.earth Do you think it's likely that mastodon.coffee will ever block mastodon.social?

@DaNanner@mastodon.coffee @ansate@weirder.earth Oh thank you! Are you pretty happy there?

@KSlattery@ioc.exchange @vwheato@mastodon.lol Hey! I'm just about to move to @hollie@social.coop, so if you lose me here I will pop up there! :)

@SavahRellcast@mastodon.world @GemT@mastodon.social Look at members, check out their instances! Anytime you see new people you like, check out their instances and see if they're open and you like their policies. I see a lot of people happy with universeodon.com right now.

@roamlab@mastodon.world The best thing I've found it to just look at the people I like and follow and check out their instances, see if they're open, if they have good moderating teams, etc.

@WeShall@universeodon.com Possibly? But I've also noticed that because of the influx of new users, things have slowed down, and sometimes I search for a person, can't find them, search again a few minutes later, and they pop up.

@vilhelmo@mastodon.lol Yeah that's definitely becoming a problem. Many of the instances that are the first names folks think of when they're reaching for names that aren't mastodon.social, end up being closed or temporarily suspending invites because they were just popular enough to get swamped.

@tedmaul@toot.community You can usually find that info on an instance's About page! Not always, some instances choose not to list that, but over half that I've looked at do list it.