I’m looking to move to a new Mastodon instance, away from Mastodon.social. I don’t have any problems with .social, but I kinda want to keep things decentralized in the Fediverse, and I want to start fresh with a new account regardless.
So, what small-to-medium size Mastodon instances do you recommend? I’m looking for something fairly general-purpose, but also keeps up to date on the latest software fairly quickly (if possible).


Why not self host it? If you use Software like snac or gotosocial its quiet easy and soft on resources.
Because not everyone is willing to self-host, deal with domains and take on a long-term commitment?
I’d say OP is right, looking for a stable, medium-sized instance is better for the Fediverse than pushing this idea that everyone should be running their own instance.