How to Join the Fediverse w/out Mastodon

History/Why I should care about Mastodon or Fediverse

Recently there has been influx in the amount of people who want autonomy in social media. People value their privacy and ponder, why do we have to go to X.com, Facebook.com, or Instagram.com to socialize? Why can't we start our own social media?

Until recently the answer was because building social media is expensive, hard to setup, and demands user attention to be break even. The average developer, let alone a person …

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