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).


I’m also on SDF’s Mastodon server. Fairly small and largely general purpose. Seems to have pretty good uptime.
SDF’s instance is on FediDB’s first page for user count.
I love how you can pick almost any number between 1 and 100 and there will be instances in FediDB with exactly that many accounts. Long tail indeed.