Content? Politics? Community? A cool integration you’re looking for? Maybe even a cool domain name? I’m not looking for tips as an instance owner, lol; I’m just curious.

Edit: I’ve gotten a lot of push factors, what about pull factors?

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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    14 hours ago

    I stick to Mbin when possible. Mastodon or crust.piefed.social for generating RSS bots. Mastodon also if I want to post heavier files in size. NeoDB if I want to post reviews. Lemmy if I want to post stuff for nicher instances and I happen to have an alt on, or if I want to crosspost posts no longer available externally but available locally.

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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      13 hours ago

      Mbin I prefer because it integrates decently enough thread posts and microblogs while, unlike alternatived, not being visually bloated or as slow to interact.

      And when it lacks some feature, it’s one of the better and more responsive ones to either emulate or redirect to an instance that supports the given feature, either by Ublock Origin filters, Violentmonkey scripts, etc.

      • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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        13 hours ago

        Also integrating microblog features to threads, like following the poster and boosting posts and comments, is great imo. And I can post microblogs to communities without @ the community, which makes the posts cleaner. And can post to Bluesky too through a bridging service for microblogging.

        Also forgot to mention another instance (or rather software), Misskey. That one I like for following people through RSS since it allows the technology for external accounts. But then I set a script for redirecting the Misskey posts to Mbin or Mastodon’s (hardcoded) search links. Mastodon’s also good for RSS, specifically hashtags’ in its case, but needs an ever-growing list of matched links in the redirect script.