mastodon.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

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Televise (Mastodon)

, Meta's plan of building a Twitter alternative presumably using Mastodon, is troublesome. As much as Meta is embracing open source, at the end of it all, Meta wants our data - they're a data harvesting company that owns and operates Facebook and Instagram, among others. Seeing ads on Mastodon instances in the future is fine by me - but I don't want to see Facebook trackers embedded all over Mastodon, and I for sure don't want Meta to be the go-to company for anything Mastodon-related.