Is this social network still free?
Mastodon was created as a free social network whose server software is completely free, developed by a community of users. Thanks to this, anyone who wants to can join the expansion of the network by creating their own server that will communicate with already existing servers thanks to the common protocol ActivityPub, and as of today we know of more than 3840 active servers created by different people around the world.
A new Mastodon user just needs to register on one of the existing servers — and access to the rest of the users registered on other servers will be granted automatically. But how to choose a server? It is best to choose the nearest server whose administrators you can trust.
October 4, 2022 Public organization "Internews Ukraine" officially announced the launch of several regional Mastodon servers in Ukraine at once within the project dComms, the purpose of which is to provide alternative methods of communication in conditions of censorship, interruptions and restrictions in the Internet. In fact, these servers were created back in August-September 2022, in particular, local ones were launched in the respective cities:
Additional local servers that are currently still hosted on server equipment in Kyiv:
These are not the first Mastodon servers in Ukraine: the oldest (UA Fediland) was launched in May of this year, and the newest (Vinnytsia social network) just a few days ago.
