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🐘 Mastodon instances overview

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Instances are not restricted to their theme. General use is always welcome. This list may be useful for new users who wish to choose an instance by theme (better advice: choose instance by looking at its administrator's timeline! and read local rules)

Notable mention

// some are open only to particular audience, i.e., to students of university

Run by tech-savvy organizations

Instances for techies

Gamedev

Arts

Sciences

Hobbies

Language specifics

Regional

Political and social views

Economics, business

Animal lovers, ecology

Safe spaces

For people with a sense of self-irony

Characters

Subcultures

Series / game / book theme

Notable generalistic

// biased personal choosing of small-to-medium sized instances that may be happy to have new users

Disclaimer

During this research I skipped following instances: closed registration at the moment of checking, running old code, theme / description not understood due to language barrier or scarce description, with long blocklists and strange block reasoning, experimental servers.

If I forgot to include your instance, don't take it personally. You can add themed instances by opening an issue or via MR. If your instance already has many users, may be it would be wise to let other instances grow instead, for a healthier decentralization.

If you wish to be excluded from the list, kindly say so in issues.

Possible research to be made
  • where instances are hosted (how many of them (%) are hosted on Amazon);
  • how many instances (%) provide transparent info about silencing other instances, how many don't provide this information;
  • which silenced instances are in blocklists often, which are personal preferences of some instance's admins.