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

Server stats:

5
active users

Due to the way the Fediverse works, it's a good idea to have at least some followers (even a handful!) before you post interesting content. If you post stuff when you have literally zero followers, that content will usually not be visible outside your server, even if people follow you later.

There's more info on why this situation exists here:

➡️ fedi.tips/making-your-posts-vi

One workaround is to pin posts on your profile, pinned posts are visible to everyone:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post

fedi.tips Try to have at least some followers before posting your best content on Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

@FediTips The most interesting posts can be pinned, supposedly they will always be visible at the top of the blog. But this is not certain.

Fedi.Tips

@johan

On Mastodon, pinned posts will always be visible to everyone at the top of your profile page.

They will always be visible even if you have no followers.