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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So I guess Annwyn and I are shopping for a tandem account now, and we're curious about #fediverse software that isn't Mastodon. Or at least I am. I know some people use #akkoma and others use #misskey and the Friendica isn't real. I'm curious as to what people's experiences are with these platforms.

Maybe we should just find a cool misskey instance and poke around. See if we like it.

@mercymorbid Don't forget to check out some of the forks as well, Calkey, Sharkey... I think there's at least one or two, @FediTips can you help me out on that?
Fedi.Tips

@vextaur @mercymorbid

Calckey became Firefish but it was abandoned by the lead developer without any warning. The other devs tried to keep it going but AFAIK it was eventually ended.

Sharkey is a popular *key fork, waiting to see how it progresses.

Friendica is great by the way, it predates Mastodon :)

@FediTips @mercymorbid Yeah, keeping track of the *key forks is a pain, you need a scorecard