[mabcat]

It looks like the Mastodon instance host Simon is using, masto.host, closed for new sign-ups 8 hours ago. Is there another recommended alternative? I don't think I have the energy to maintain a self-hosted Mastodon instance. I sure haven't missed running a mail server...

[Nasreddin_Hodja]

Biggest instances are https://mastodon.online and https://mastodon.social but there are a lot of it https://joinmastodon.org/en/servers

Also Mastodon isn't the only platform, there are some other activitypub compatible engines which are able to federate with Mastodon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://fediverse.party/

[mabcat]

Thank you, against my better judgement I've set up a self-hosted Pleroma