social.growyourown.services is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Single-user Mastodon instance for the Grow Your Own Services site

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A number of governments (France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands), international organisations (The European Union, The Council of Europe, W3C etc), public broadcasters (ZDF, the BBC, PBS/NPR affiliates etc) have set up servers or accounts on the Fediverse.

Please ask public services in your country/region/area to follow their lead. I can do a shoutout on @FediFollows to help get them started.

Musk's Twitter hides all its accounts behind a sign-in page, so it's no longer a public channel.

@FediTips @FediFollows

Good luck getting any alphabet agencies in the US to run a Mastodon box. Local municipal orgs might. I'd start with public libraries ❤️

Also RSS is great, but good luck getting the average person to use it. Still too techy for most, meh meh.

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@jesswill42 @FediTips

Oh yeah, grassroots is definitely good starting point 👍 There's a US public library at @VernonLibrary for example.

"RSS is great, but good luck getting the average person to use it"

They don't need to use it directly, the main advantage of RSS is it allows mirrors to be easily set up on any social network or website, which can then be followed or read like any normal social media account or site. For example @APoD is a Fediverse mirror of an official RSS feed from NASA.