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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Chris Trottier

@breadbin I would consider Email and Usenet to be part of the Fediverse.

If it enables two-way communication across multiple nodes, then it's federated.