Istanze-Mastodon/README.MD

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🐘 Mastodon instances overview

Instances are not restricted to their theme. General use is almost always welcome. This list may be useful for curious minds and for new users who wish to choose an instance by theme (although, a better advice would be: choose an 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

Language specifics

Regional

Political and social views

Animal lovers, ecology

Safe spaces

For people with a sense of self-irony

Hobbies

Characters

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've forgotten to include your instance, please, 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, please, kindly say so in issues.

If you speak Japanese and would like to provide categorized lists for Japanese instances, please, do. This list is for people who might or might not speak Japanese, but who for sure speak English. So it might be a good idea to ask admins to put some English description in /About first. New users need to be sure they will be understood by administrator of the instance they've chosen.

Possible other research to be made
  • how many instances (%) provide transparent info about silencing other instances (most often info is on /About page), how many don't provide this information
  • which silenced instances are in blocklists quite often and which are personal prefs of some instance's admins;
  • where instances are hosted (or, may be, how much of them (%) are hosted on Amazon).