soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
One thing about managing my subscriptions, particularly Patreon, I'm trying to learn is that I can't try to hold people aloft with $10 or more every month. Yes, I was doing that with some of my subscriptions. Patreon is where lots of people are supposed to pitch in a little to make a lot, and I just can't afford to help as much as I used to think. Also a few subscriptions seem to be not even producing anything for like a year, and one of them, Lemuroid, hasn't even provided the one issue fix I asked for on Github. Oh also the best Android coverage doesn't cover accessibility unless Google pops out and says something (he doesn't dig in at all of course), so free posts it is. I definitely feel much better sorting all this out. But honestly, kinda selfish (was "selfies"), but prioritizing my own desires for content I want to read instead of just supporting journalists and developers and such just because. But it needs doing. I can't support everyone, and if I am to support the people I care about, I can't support the people who can't care enough about what I'm paying them for to consider my reason for paying them.