I don't need to tell any of you that mastodon.social is a bit....busy.
What instance should I switch to?
@ct_bergstrom fediscience.org or any at https://fediscience.org/server-list.html
@downey @ct_bergstrom That looks good (out of general interest). New to all this, a bit more involved than I thought. So if I wanted to see and search on fediscience, I could just look up people in the registry and follow them without changing my handle, is that correct? https://fediscience.org/explore
@evautier @ct_bergstrom yes, just like email you can interact with anyone at any provider. being local to it gets you an extra view of everyone else on your system though without having to follow them.
@evautier oh and also note that most instances maintain a list of users that folks can choose to list themselves on, e.g. https://fediscience.org/explore
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