@daveley Great question. A rew reasons:

- mastodon.social’s so big that the Local and Federated timelines aren’t very useful.

- smaller instances (even if they’re not special-interest focused) are more likely to have a good community.

- many other instances have “silenced” mastodon.social (because of its long history of moderation issues – or just because of the volume), so people on other instances are less likely to connect with you.

All that being said, I wasn’t trying to say that mastodon.social was terrible - it’s the advice that’s horrible. It’s just that for most people it’s not the best place to start.

@fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediverse@kbin.social

@ozoned cool, thanks very much! It’s now at the start of the “don’t tell people it’s easy” section – https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/#its-not-easy

@ozoned exactly! I’m working on a revision, can I add this as a quote to the “Don’t tell peole it’s easy” section? You say it better than I did!