More tools like this would be useful: https://instances.social/
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It absolutely would. The descriptions even say what they focus on instead of just template language.
I self host my Mastodon instance but from what I've heard you need to check whether the instance owner's values and rules are somewhat compatible with yours
That does look like it is true for Mastodon. Maybe the others could use the idea going forward.
For pixelfed you can't go wrong with pixelfed.social. Run by the lead developer himself and is the biggest server.
Thanks for the suggestion. I definitely might go that route. It seems like the ease of just picking the biggest/first server might be bumping agaist the idea of federation and why it is valuable. I am so used to going to centralized platforms that I am trying to fight the urge a little when choosing where to set up.
How did you get to beehaw.org over lemmy.ml?
Well I wanted a more generalized reddit alternative and wanted to have an opportunity to discuss things with people who have potentially different ideas than me, with me coming from a leftist perspective. So to avoid a possible circlejerk or an echo chamber I thought beehaw might be a good idea. And with federation you don't have to worry about choosing the biggest server if it fits your needs as you'll be able to connect with other servers anyway. And due to federation if the main server fucks something up for you, you can always switch. So you're using federation to its full potential anyway even while using the biggest server.