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.
"Lowell plunders an emerald out of a wrecked ship, starts a fistfight with a local ruler, nearly dies when a boa constrictor wraps itself around her neck, and is wounded by an alligator. Journalists were suspicious." —Michael Waters for the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/joan-lowell-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-literary-fraud?src=longreads #frauds #hoaxes #memoir #adventure #history