Sonya Mann ✅ is a user on maly.io. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
@sonya @frankiesaxx @abackstrom Heh. Now I'm envisioning some sort of "Hitchhiker's Guide" for Mastodon instances: a hopefully objective site that lists popular communities and provides specific metrics: level of regulation, maturity of the admins and users, general culture/topics, etc.
A few entries along the lines of "don't sign up here—the admin is a galactic asshole who can't get along with anyone" might help make sure everyone at least tries to keep things cordial.
@csilverman @sonya @abackstrom Haha. TripAdvisor for Mastadon instances!
@frankiesaxx @csilverman @abackstrom my friend @way made a version of that! it doesn't include levels of federation or instance-blocking though http://tooter.today/
@sonya @csilverman @abackstrom @way Oh thanks! I've been kind of poking around the smaller instances and some of the gnu social sites out there to start following interesting people & bringing them into our federation on tchncs. That's gonna help a lot.