cosocial.ca is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A co-op run social media server for all Canadians. More info at https://blog.cosocial.ca

Server stats:

140
active users

Honestly, at least 75% of the reason I use CloudFlare is because if I use AWS for DNS / domain registration, I'm stuck in "which account in my org owns it" purgatory.