Socialists on mastodon?

The recent purge of reactonaries from twitter et al. caused renewed interest in the fediverse and mastodon specifically. if you never heard of it, it’s a open source alernative to twitter. When you register an account you register it on a specific server. those are self-hosted, so no one can take you down (apart from your ISP/hosting provider ofc). they are self monitored and don’t have an overlord. If you are familiar with lemmy.ml and chapo.chat, mastodon is to twitter what lemmy is to reddit.

The problem is, there aren’t any socialist communmities on mastodon (to my knowledge. if there are, please let me know). As an influx of reactionaries is heading their way, i am worried that they will dominate the space. I know, mastodon probably won’t take on twitter in terms of userbase, but we should have communities that we actually control anyway. leftists get purged too, as im sure you know. We should have a second leg to stand on and build upon, you might say we should build dual power structures on the internet. We should not rely on proprietary corporate platforms for our communication.

I am currently looking into the technicalities of self-hosting a mastodon server and the costs involved. I am not a webdev by any stretch of the imagination, but i do have experience hosting my own stuff and administering a server. They have very good documentation, but it does look like a pretty elaborate operation, especially once you scale it up. I am curious if there is any interest in a socialist mastodon server, and if there are any comrades who are interested in helping with hosting it (assuming there is interest).

Anyway, that’s about it. if you have any input, please leave a comment and if you want to help in any capacity feel free to dm me.