mastodon.online is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Server stats:

11K
active users

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@JoeGrowling not really. A dormant account that can't be abused that gives zero visits is much better than a hijacked account spewing propaganda to old friends that gives a daily active user account to be abused to sell ads and make revenue.

They could have eleventh billion accounts, but having no actual engagement beyond bots talking to themselves will do nothing to support the company