CounterSocial

 CounterSocial aka CoSo.
Recommend that everyone try them out.
https://counter.social/whojay.html

The Short History of CounterSocial and Mastodon
How they broke their own license agreement and how we got to where we are now.

“Here’s the history of Mastodon and CounterSocial. Long story short, they forced us to fork them.”
The coder who built Mastodon is 24, fiercely independent, and doesn’t care about money He’s the tooter-in-chief.
https://mashable.com/article/eugen-rochko-mastodon-interview
CounterSocial went live on November 17, 2017.

One of Mastodon’s core features, and arguably the PRIMARY differentiator used to market adoption, is the decentralization aspect of the platform, known as The Federation. The company allows anyone to deploy a Mastodon server and modify it however they see fit (as long as they comply with AGPLv3 agreement). By doing so, they join a federation of other independent Mastodon instances, that are seamlessly inter-connected.

Because of CounterSocial’s zero tolerance stance regarding trolls, misinformation, fake news, bots, and harassment, we configured our infrastructure firewall to block certain nations known for producing troll and bot farms or engaging in foreign influence operations, and/or enforce laws that make participating in social media dangerous to their citizens. We block a total of 6 nations out of almost 200.