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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@madeindex Users of #LemmyWorld, #ShitJustWorks, and #Lemmee do not generally know what Cloudflare is, even though those three sites are inside Cloudflare’s walled garden. Those users are oblivious to the fact that they are supporting a platform that arbitrarily excludes several demographics of people while empowering a US tech giant. So they are accidental supporters.

BTW, mastodon.social used to be a Cloudflare site, but at some point they ditched CF.

MadeInDex 📰🌎

@hyakinthos
Well using and supporting is a difference in my opinion.

Instead of being hard on the , we should spread awareness on 😀

Let's just start 👍

Glad .social (corrected) is free!

@madeindex To be clear, mastodon is not CF free. *Some* instances are CF free and some are not. E.g. mas.to is a Mastodon node that is centralized on Cloudflare, which defeats the decentralization purpose of the fedi.

I think the best way to spread awareness is to stigmatize the users of CF platforms the same way AOL users used to be stigmatized. That’s the only way to spread awareness as fast as it needs to happen.

@hyakinthos
absolutely, forgot the .social 😂

How did they get stigmatized?

@madeindex

@hyakinthos

Could we start with an in depth explanation of the situation for those of us who have not been able to keep up?