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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@Sarahp Interesting that Mastodon itself combines a myriad of different social networks into one app. In a non-federated world, mastodon.social and vivaldi.net would be completely separate social networks; more so for Flipboard, Ghost, Pixelfed and so on. And yet you get all of them in your home feed on Mastodon.

@Gargron unfortunately, there are other protocols out there trying to do the same

Gregory

@Sarahp @Gargron the good thing about open protocols is that it is possible to build bridges between them so even these different networks eventually end up interconnected with each other.