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Registrations for 'mastodon.social' are often closed, but you can learn more about Mastodon and register with another instance at joinmastodon.org. It doesn't matter which instance you register on - you can still follow anyone on any instance.

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I want to sign up but not sure what instance to use is dot social fine? I mostly want to use it for my friends circle

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[–] nan05@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, there are differences in terms of features between the two. Also differences in terms of activity. In my area of interest (cybersecurity, web dev, technology) Mastodon has far more interesting (for me) activity than Bluesky.

In terms of servers: With Bluesky there is no choice of servers. With Mastodon there is. But in most cases the choice of server doesn't matter all that much with Mastodon.

IMO, for someone who doesn't know, it's best to just randomly pick from one of the big Mastodon servers (mastodon.social, mstdn.social, universeodon.com, etc) and get started. Don't overthink it.

Hence my comment: If you don't know, you won't really make a mistake by just going with dot social.