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

Mastodon Migration

@f4rr3r

Similar in this respect to saying the network is distributed.

When you need to parse the specific language used to identify in what manner someone is being misleading it tells you all you need to know about them.