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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Nowhere Girl

Bluesky is full of people who complain Mastodon is "too hard" but who mostly seemed to want to port their Twitter followers and experience directly.