With joinmastodon.org you can try to narrow in an instance that meets your interests. I signed up for three to just explore which ones I wanted to be on. One wa

With joinmastodon.org you can try to narrow in an instance that meets your interests. I signed up for three to just explore which ones I wanted to be on. One was Mastodon.social which is fairly large, and then two more niche ones. Being able to explore the niche ones for their topics, but knowing I can hop into federated or .social is kind of like utilizing lists. I think all of this allows you for to more easily just throw a thought out there and get some engagement since your smaller niche instances will have less noise.