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 turns out Democrasexy, the org I mentioned in the article, has an event tonight (Feb 28) which includes some fun and some education on how to get involved at the legislature: https://www.mobilize.us/urge/event/755235/