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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Server stats:

380K
active users

The next wave of social media isn’t going to be with centralized Big Social wannabes like Tribel, Hive, and Spoutible.

It will be with decentralized server apps like Mastodon, Akkoma, Friendica, *key apps, /kbin, and (maybe) Bluesky.