kolektiva.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Kolektiva is an anti-colonial anarchist collective that offers federated social media to anarchist collectives and individuals in the fediverse. For the social movements and liberation!
@edsu i didn't see anyone else reference Ampled in response to your thread thus far https://www.ampled.com/ - it's a bit more like Patreon - but Bandcamp has also gives artists a similar subscription feature