p.s. If you're already on mastodon.social, you can move to a different server.
If you only just signed up and have no or very few followers, easiest option is probably to sign up on another server and forget about your mastodon.social account.
if you've already got a significant number of followers and you want to keep them, you can move your account to another server using the transfer process. There's a non-technical step-by-step guide to moving your account here: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
p.p.s. For people wondering why mas.to is better option than mastodon.social, here are some figures:
mastodon.social currently has ~20% of active Fediverse accounts
mas.to currently has ~1% of active Fediverse accounts
Mastodon.social is just so much larger than other servers and keeps growing, it is putting the network itself in danger.
I totally get the idea of having a single suggested server, but we need to regularly rotate which single server is suggested so we spread growth out.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services how do you switch servers?
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
it's educational reading the comments & opinions.💙
how do i see stats on mastodon.world?
was i just randomly assigned to it?
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Agreed.
I have subscribed to several interesting hashtags but since I get very little traffick in mas.to I suspect it is the server. Not the hashtag.
Can I somehow follow the hashtags from another server than my own? @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services and even though I’m biased, I think our moderation team is pretty okie-dokie. 😉
We’re not perfect, but we care and we try hard. And we LOVE good people and Mastodon.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Mas.to is also part of Fedipact, the instances that refused to federate Threads.
Meta has no place in the Fediverse.
Eugen at .social federated with Threads without consulting the users on .social
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services How is mastodon.online holding up?
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Run a new theme every month to highlight the diversity here
@WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.world
Mastodon.world is currently just under 1% of the total active Fediverse, based on what's at https://fedidb.com
You wouldn't have been randomly assigned, but there are many ways you might have joined. At some point you (or someone helping you?) would probably have chosen mastodon.world from a list of some kind? Or maybe you got an invitiation?
@luupilotti@mas.to Hi! I guess that's what groups are for. @FediTips@social.growyourown.services has also a website covering them here https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/
Hope this helps. I also migrated to a smaller server using the guide lately and it was very easy.
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange
I run an account at @FediGarden@social.growyourown.services and a website at https://fedi.garden to highlight good well-run smaller and medium-sized servers that people can join 🙂
Good initiative but to get larger population to the fedi instead of just us nerds, this implementation has several usability flaws.
Firstly, users would need to understand how the system technically works to be able to find posts and get visibility. This is a far fetch.
🧵
@frankie_flowers@franken.social @luupilotti@mas.to
The traffic mainly depends on what the tags are, mas.to has good connections to the Fediverse and should be getting as much as you could typically get.
But as Frankie says, groups are a way of getting exactly the same traffic on all servers. You can find more info in the link they gave (https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/).
I would advise following as many tags and groups as you can until you are seeing the amount of content you want.
...secondly, users will need to learn and remember to use not just hashtags but also group names. This will not happen. Only those understanding the inner works of fedi, and whom spefically want a certain distribution can use it.
This is a good use case but at the same time a fail for the need to discover like minded ones whom often are not engineers in it or tech. They just post stuff, sometimes with hashtags, sometimes forgetting....
E.g. I am intersted in steamboats in active use, and would like to have a way to find other steamheads, many of whom have no idea of fedi insides or even what a hashtag is.
Or another interest in EU CRA related topics. Thus higher changes writer knows how to use fedi.
On fedi or mastodon, are there ways to e.g. create feeds similar to Bsky?
@frankie_flowers@franken.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange
I run an account at @FediGarden@social.growyourown.services and a website at https://fedi.garden to highlight good well-run smaller and medium-sized servers that people can join 🙂
Good initiative but to get larger population to the fedi instead of just us nerds, this implementation has several usability flaws.
Firstly, users would need to understand how the system technically works to be able to find posts and get visibility. This is a far fetch.
🧵
@frankie_flowers@franken.social @luupilotti@mas.to
The traffic mainly depends on what the tags are, mas.to has good connections to the Fediverse and should be getting as much as you could typically get.
But as Frankie says, groups are a way of getting exactly the same traffic on all servers. You can find more info in the link they gave (https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/).
I would advise following as many tags and groups as you can until you are seeing the amount of content you want.
...secondly, users will need to learn and remember to use not just hashtags but also group names. This will not happen. Only those understanding the inner works of fedi, and whom spefically want a certain distribution can use it.
This is a good use case but at the same time a fail for the need to discover like minded ones whom often are not engineers in it or tech. They just post stuff, sometimes with hashtags, sometimes forgetting....
E.g. I am intersted in steamboats in active use, and would like to have a way to find other steamheads, many of whom have no idea of fedi insides or even what a hashtag is.
Or another interest in EU CRA related topics. Thus higher changes writer knows how to use fedi.
On fedi or mastodon, are there ways to e.g. create feeds similar to Bsky?
@frankie_flowers@franken.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@luupilotti@mas.to
I'm not sure exactly how the Bluesky feed operates, but it sounds somewhat similar to Fedigroups? You can apply to create one by filling the form on the front page at https://about.fedigroups.social
If you do create a group, let me know about it and I'll give it a shoutout over on @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
@luupilotti@mas.to
I'm not sure exactly how the Bluesky feed operates, but it sounds somewhat similar to Fedigroups? You can apply to create one by filling the form on the front page at https://about.fedigroups.social
If you do create a group, let me know about it and I'll give it a shoutout over on @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
...secondly, users will need to learn and remember to use not just hashtags but also group names. This will not happen. Only those understanding the inner works of fedi, and whom spefically want a certain distribution can use it.
This is a good use case but at the same time a fail for the need to discover like minded ones whom often are not engineers in it or tech. They just post stuff, sometimes with hashtags, sometimes forgetting....
E.g. I am intersted in steamboats in active use, and would like to have a way to find other steamheads, many of whom have no idea of fedi insides or even what a hashtag is.
Or another interest in EU CRA related topics. Thus higher changes writer knows how to use fedi.
On fedi or mastodon, are there ways to e.g. create feeds similar to Bsky?
@frankie_flowers@franken.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
E.g. I am intersted in steamboats in active use, and would like to have a way to find other steamheads, many of whom have no idea of fedi insides or even what a hashtag is.
Or another interest in EU CRA related topics. Thus higher changes writer knows how to use fedi.
On fedi or mastodon, are there ways to e.g. create feeds similar to Bsky?
@frankie_flowers@franken.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@luupilotti@mas.to
I'm not sure exactly how the Bluesky feed operates, but it sounds somewhat similar to Fedigroups? You can apply to create one by filling the form on the front page at https://about.fedigroups.social
If you do create a group, let me know about it and I'll give it a shoutout over on @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
E.g. I am intersted in steamboats in active use, and would like to have a way to find other steamheads, many of whom have no idea of fedi insides or even what a hashtag is.
Or another interest in EU CRA related topics. Thus higher changes writer knows how to use fedi.
On fedi or mastodon, are there ways to e.g. create feeds similar to Bsky?
@frankie_flowers@franken.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@luupilotti@mas.to
I'm not sure exactly how the Bluesky feed operates, but it sounds somewhat similar to Fedigroups? You can apply to create one by filling the form on the front page at https://about.fedigroups.social
If you do create a group, let me know about it and I'll give it a shoutout over on @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
@luupilotti@mas.to
I'm not sure exactly how the Bluesky feed operates, but it sounds somewhat similar to Fedigroups? You can apply to create one by filling the form on the front page at https://about.fedigroups.social
If you do create a group, let me know about it and I'll give it a shoutout over on @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
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