Yo #Fedi folk,
What #Mastodon instance would you recommend to your mom? It's not for my mom, but for friends that aren't really the target demographic for @fosstodon (which I love).
Looking for something reasonably large (>9999 members), but family friendly, that blocks all the fringe political junk and NSFW.
@RL_Dane like blocks incoming stuff on the federated timeline, or just locally? We keep QOTO pretty clean locally, but the idea is for users to decide which instances they want to block. We've only blocked three domains at the instance level, and that for circumventing user-level measures. Sort of a good-neighbour policy: be conservative in what we send and liberal in what we accept.
17k users so seems to be about there you want it.
Nominally it's a science focussed instance but as long as you're not going crazy on flat earth, antivax, evolution denial, etc., it's pretty generalist in practice.
@khird
Nice, thank you!
I have a friend (who's a physics teacher, btw) that I'm trying to convince to try out the Light Side (#fedi). I showed him a thread or two that was really wholesome, healthy, and positive, and I'm trying to entice him over. I just wanted to have some recommended instances in my back pocket, so thanks so much! 😁