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@dichotomiker It totally depends on what you want to get out of it. Mastodon has proven to be fairly robust for medium-large communities. Pleroma is great for smaller ones who don't want to waste that many resources just for a few people. Misskey is totally different, you'd have to look it up. But all of them are part of the microblogging family.

And if you want something different, like an Instagram-competitor, look at Pixelfed. YouTube competitor? PeerTube. There are even a few federated blogging platforms.

And if you can code and are not satisfied with what's already around... why not write your own! :D

@dichotomiker That said, if you're going to selfhost an instance which'll only have you, I can recommend Pleroma as that's quicker to set up and lighter on resources.

@dichotomiker Everybody has their own preferences. Pleroma has cool stuff too. And maybe you'd like to take a look at Misskey as well, so many features that Mastodon don't have. There are a few more platforms but they're a bit more obscure.

@dichotomiker Mastodon is just chronological. It doesn't decide which posts are worthy of viewing.

@wood @peterdrake
No, @freemo has explained it to us before in https://qoto.org/@freemo/108259611628098699

The result is that we see more than the ones who block heavily as they also usually get blocked in return.

We don't have that many blocks against us at all. It just draws your attention because mastodon.art is one of the bigger ones and if you're heavily interested in art that might be a bummer.

My suggestion? Create another account elsewhere for art stuff if you want to interact with mastodon.art. Nobody's saying you're restricted to just one account. :)

@wilfried Leuk... De postlimiet aan het testen? ;)

@EubieDrew @freemo It's not an issue, they'll see everything. This server is hardly the only one with a large limit. Pleroma and some other platforms besides Mastodon also have large limits and default Mastodon interacts with them fine as well.

@vancew It's just a little bit an unfortunate picture angle of an ale meant to be anally ingested? 😂

@virati Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!

Unfortunately at the moment Latex isn't really working on this server. But @freemo is working on it.

@wood @peterdrake Yes, mastodon.art blocks qoto.org. Qoto is one of the most connected servers around because of our no-block stance.

@preem @freemo Indeed. ;) Thanks!

@Blenster Thanks, you too. ;)

@vancew We don't have that kind of space over here, lol. Most of our universities are near the old city centers. :D

@vancew That looks like a very fancy university!

@MrGR @stux ... rare means weird here... seltsamen seems rare as in not occuring often? :D

@abde I'm just a very active user who's been in the Fediverse for a while. Always happy to see more people. :)

@vancew Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!

@abde Don't worry too much, there are many others like you right now as there've been a lot of newcomers lately.

Just take your time and explore the settings too for some nice features. Be sure to check the 'About this server' page too to see what the custom modifications are on this specific Mastodon server. :)

@abde Welcome to Qoto and the Fediverse!

@lydiaconwell A long time ago. It didn't age well by the way.