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!
It just seems faster in every client that I've tried. There's also a lot of software that's built around it, and crucially, my xmpp bridge isn't banned from joining Libera IRC channels.