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I'm looking to move to a new Mastodon instance, away from Mastodon.social. I don't have any problems with .social, but I kinda want to keep things decentralized in the Fediverse, and I want to start fresh with a new account regardless.

So, what small-to-medium size Mastodon instances do you recommend? I'm looking for something fairly general-purpose, but also keeps up to date on the latest software fairly quickly (if possible).

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[–] Jerry@feddit.online 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://hear-me.social/ is one possibility. It has the added benefit of a 12,000-character posting size as well, especially nice if the 500-character limit at .social was frustrating.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

not a user of mastodon, but how do these long posts federate over?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 5 days ago

Just like any other post. Character limit is an abstraction introduced by Mastodon, it has nothing to do with ActivityPub.