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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active users

Eugen Rochko

This might be important for other Mastodon admins so I think at least a summary is necessary.

Yesterday my 🐦 account for Mastodon was dragged into a discussion about counter.social. That is a Mastodon instance/fork that claims to be "hardened" against "hostile nations".