Couple suggestions: A lot of people join on a big instance (like mastodon.social, which is the biggest). It doesn't matter as much, as long it's not an extreme

Couple suggestions: A lot of people join on a big instance (like mastodon.social, which is the biggest). It doesn't matter as much, as long it's not an extreme-left/right oriented instance, because those end up blocking or being blocked by other instances. You can follow anyone on any mastodon server that is not blocked by/from yours. If you basically want to have niche discussions, joining a niche instance might be the way (like urusai.social for anime). If not, I personally prefer just going with a big instance. I'm just moving back to mastodon.social for my main profile, and there are 2 reasons: - Searching for content: if you are on a small instance that doesn't federate with a lot of instances, searching will not return any posts/users from those. - Reading replies to other's posts: This is where it's a bit weird, and they don't yet developed a solution. If I post something on instance A, and you are on instance B that federated with it, you see my post. But if a person from instance C (that federates with A but not yet with B) replies to my post, you won't see their replies. This lead to some people being like: "is that why a bunch of people on different instances reply the exact same thing, as if it wasn't already said in the replies?"