@RolfBly @Karen5Lund @noondlyt There are many good well-run instances that have been around for years, here is a small human-curated selection: https://fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-founding-year

@klu9 Yes, but the FediGroups.social provider (which is currently the main provider of these kinds of groups) also has moderation tools for screening posts and members, and options for hiding discussions etc.

@book They are trying to con people into giving their credit card details as a form of verification. Then they can drain the card of money.The reason they're doing this is because so many sites are actually asking for this, for example Apple is now demanding all its UK users give credit card details to verify their age. This gives scammers a really good cover to do scams.Fediverse platforms don't do this, but not everyone realises this.

@peerg @FediTips I boosted this, too.

@duckwhistle @TimWardCam Yup, a deleted post (for whatever reason) would also explain it.

@ley0x Vernissage is more like Flickr (a photography platform), Pixelfed is more like Instagram (a social network).

@soren Thank you so much! Really grateful to you, this is a big help in maintaining the services.And yes, Liberapay is great! I hope more people use this option

@Tyropitoubas They're shares, they appear in the feeds of your followers.

@jwcph @peertube That's an excellent suggestion!I've added it as a feature request on PeerTube's Github page: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7540

@rhizomancer Yay! 🥳 Web apps are great!

@Rycochet Yeah, it can be tricky to know where to sign up For what it's worth, I'd recommend using a human-curated server list where someone has checked the servers before listing them. I run one at https://fedi.garden and there's also one run by the Mastodon developers at https://joinmastodon.org/serversJust out of interest, do you remember how you found out about .cloud?