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!
Fines are just the state taking its cut when someone else's scam is uncovered. they never take enough from the culprits to truly create a punitive effect as the money is recouped in a single business quarter.