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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Corb_The_Lesser

@feditips This is the kind of thing that people testing the Mastodon waters run up against, don't like, leave and never come back.

No amount of education about instances and servers and what-not will attract and retain people who think of social media as an app and, justifiably, have zero interest in infrastructure.