I am struggling with decision paralysis trying to choose an instance. I’ve never been on Mastodon before.

I am tired of euro-centric and US-centric Internet spaces, but still enjoy the international aspect. Are there any instances with decent international presence?

  • Gritty
    4·
    3 years ago

    The only thing about self hosting is recruiting people otherwise you’re posting to an empty room. Sorry I don’t have a suggestion but unless you really want to self host to learn I would find a server that suits you first then maybe peel some folks off to your own server.

    • CyclohexaneOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      If I self host, can’t I do it as a single user instance? Is cross instance discovery not good in its current state?

      • hellojack
        1·
        3 years ago

        You can easily deliver/receive content using relay. I also host a intance for myself and people see my posts in federated timeline, and follow if they want to