@freemo @shuttersparks
Thanks for the welcome! I will indeed!

@freemo
Well I found something you could help me with. Was delighted to see Circles but don't know how they work on here. A tutorial on that would be great, thanks.

@shuttersparks
Glad to be here! ...at long last, because Universeodon went inoperable yesterday, so it took me a while since you recommended this to me, ha. I did save your recommendation, as you can see. WOOT!

@ClaraListensprechen4 Yes, well, it's an honest recommendation.

I've been on Masto for quite a while, on a very small and only somewhat interesting instance. In October, when I realized the Birdsite was going down the tube and that Masto was the likely place for migration, I decided to look for a better Masto instance. I searched and searched, used the mapping tools, and scratched my head. I'd like to credit myself with finding qoto on my own but it came to me through a recommendation from a friend.

I checked it out, read everything, immediately liked what I saw. I found that it's run by a competent rational person who is "on the ball", paying attention, participates, and is easily reached for questions or discussion. On my previous instance I sometimes ran into a ridiculous 500 char post limit and saw that qoto limits posts at 65k -- way more than I would ever use. The instance is hosted on real servers, not on an old desktop in someone's closet.

Well, that was that. Been active daily here six months now and have had no problems or issues whatsoever.