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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Spending thirty million dollars to somehow force bluesky to interoperate with a copy of itself while people are out here connecting C64s, AA-powered PalmPilots, aquarium pumps and toothbrushes to the Fediverse is definitely an entire idea.

"With your support we can increase the number of BlueSky servers from one to two, as long as they stand very still, don't change anything and also let us do it, all of which are reasonable things to believe will definitely happen."

Me, looking over at the tombstones of usenet, xmpp, mono and every twitter client, thirty years of embrace-extend-extinguish, people heroically struggling to resuscitate email and rss, ad-supported operating systems and all the dead-greenhouse walled gardens: No.

mhoye

Free Our Feeds people: "We want $30,000,000 to someday liberate the people who've chosen BlueSky from their having chosen BlueSky."

The @PixelFed team, blowing past their Kickstarter goal of 1.66% of $30M: "Our entire team is absolutely overwhelmed by your incredible support."

@mhoye@mastodon.social eh, pixelfed are also pretty bad
the guy who runs it has a pretty bad ego and also recently made it harder for people new to the fediverse getting started with pixelfed from choosing other servers

@tauon @mhoye how did he make it harder to choose your server?