Corporate internet is a garbage fire. No free service stays good forever. It always ends up with "sponsored content" everywhere, and an algorithm stuffing it down your throat.

The fediverse aims to replace the for-profit juggernauts with a mosaic of small, community-run sites that all connect (federate) to each other.

If the server you singed up for turns to crap, you can easily move to a better one. Running a server is actually really cheap if you don't have investors demanding you squeeze more money our of your users. Most sites are financed by the occasional passing of the hat, like your local PBS station.

Mastodon is the most common sort of server, but it's bigger than that. I can follow someone's Pixelfed account using my Mastodon account. Or even a Lemmy or Kbin community.

There are loads of furry-themed Fediverse servers. I was gonna make a guide to them, but it turns out someone else already did.

https://www.furryfediverse.org/

Pick one that sounds cool and get started.