mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.

For alternatives, see: fedipact.veganism.social

And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.

Ah, too bad. I respect Eugen's work and wanted to give the larger instances time, but will look for another instance now.

Is there any site where I can filter instances that have a higher maximum character limit than the default 500?

fedipact.veganism.social/?v2 and fedidb.org/network do not seem to have this particular filter.

If I have to move, I'd like to move to one that blocks Threads (and Bluesky) and have a higher limit.

And accepts my fuming toots condemning nazis :catjam:

@aral

fedipact.veganism.social#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.netAn interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net

@Wabbit @aral It doesn’t matter if an instance federates with threads - like any other fediverse server, if you want to block the whole instance the option is in the ‘…’ menu on any post from threads.net. You have the power to decide for yourself.

Aral Balkan

@stephengentle @Wabbit Only it does matter. One the fediverse we don’t just protect ourselves, we also watch out for those around us.

@stephengentle @aral It's a matter of principle.
The further from association as possible, the better.