As a new user to the world of "GNU social" servers (1)
you can use this feature comparison to select (from server S1-S14) your new home...

feature	comment	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5 (offline)	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12 (offline)	S13	S14
screenshot
alternative UI
messages (in mio)	date: 2013-11-15	18.4	0.5	0.3	0.18	0.03	1.9	0.01	3.0	0.03		0.02	0.01	0.3
how to join ?		info	form		(5)		open	see email	open	open	open	open	email	open	open (self-signed certificate, authorize subdomains first)
text limit	0 = no limit e.g. my avg msg length = 104 (for 503 days) + I've no limit on my instance	0	1140	140	640	500	140	140	1000	0	280	0	0	256	0
https		y			(2)		y		(2)	y	y		y	y	y
twitter-bridge	not necessary: use external services to forward				y		y			y	y	y		y	y
file attachments		y	y		y	y	y	y	y	y	y	y	y	y	y
language support	every instance: various menu languages but e.g. S6 offers RTL for Arabic						y
XMPP					y		y			y			y	y	y
openID plugin		y	y	y	y	y		y	y	y		y			y
pump.io forwarding					(3)
physical location of server	important for: speed, legalities
	Europe	UK			DE	DE	SE (7)		FR	DE		CAT	DE	FR
	non-Europe		US	US				US			US				US
topic					politics				bronies ponies			main lang. is Catalan (6)
extras	doesn't log IP addresses	y					y
	available as tor hidden service	y

info:

• This is only a selection! >200 servers can be found here (mirror)
• invite-only servers: if you know users there I'm sure they can convince the admin to also provide a home for you...
• Please don't all go to 1 server only :-(
• Why? when it lags one day: YOU also will begin to swear
• If you need a client for your android, *nix, win or mac: look here (mirror)
• you'll find there also different server themes
• people:
• user stats: look at the bottom here or at gstools.org
• find users (with similar interest)



• (todo: You will get via automated way the password to the selected server when you ...) (4)

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info for reviewers of this html page:

• goal of this page: share load, resources on more servers, see also discussion
• bias: usage of server S1, S2, ... so people really decide after features they need (and not flock all on 1 server because their buddies are there). Let's discuss if this is good ?
• please mention other/missing features (new users might miss)
• I have only selected a few SN servers, there can be more listed, drop a msg
• if you want out of the list or require certain things for registration: drop a msg or tell so we can list here
• Anything else shitty, tell also

(1) we call this the !fediverse
(2) offered partly, e.g. for registration
(3) works over friendica
(4) every SN admin can pre-create accounts. The nickname can be changed by user itself again in options to her own choice.
Either a trusted group distributes this by a standard-check (or perhaps a script can automatically).
It could be faster than the new users waiting until SN admin checks email.
to be discussed: spammers, untrusted users ...
(5) the admin thinks about offering 2nd SN server which is more public, for now: he'd like to offer accounts for people he knows

(6) ...followed by Spanish, and then English.

• It is also our hope that new neighbouring instances (or at least one), might appear sometime soonish.
  It's a goal to have some kind of equivalent to the network of sites in French or German.

(7) Sweden, but tunneling through maltese IP