(2017-08-28) The Importance Of Choosing The Correct Mastodon Instance Chenet

Carl Chenet: The Importance of Choosing the Correct Mastodon Instance

Some technical reminders on how Mastodon works

You can move your user account from one instance to another, but you have to follow a special procedure which can be quite long, considering your own interest for technical manipulation and the total amount of your followers you’ll have to warn about your change

From this working process, several technical and human factors will interest us.

A good technical administration for instance

To create its own instance is way too difficult for the average user. Yet, using an open instance creates a strong dependence on the technical administrator of the chosen instance.

Regarding the time factor, it would be better to choose an administration team over an individual

The creator of the mastodon project, also offers a quite solid instance, Mastodon.social

The Ideological Trend Of Your Instance

Little by little, different instances show their “culture”, their protest action, and their propaganda on this social network.

As the instance administrator has all the powers over its instance, he or she can block the instance of interacting with some other instances, or ban its instance’s users from any interaction with other instances’ users.

With everyone having in mind the main advantages to have federalized instance from, this partial independence of some instances from the federation was a huge surprise.

To ease the process for newcomers, it is now possible to use a great tool to select what instance should be the best to host your account.

nobody can force said administrator to follow its own rules, or not to change them on the fly.

Think Twice Before Creating Your Account