mastodon.gamedev.place is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Mastodon server focused on game development and related topics.

Server stats:

5.5K
active users

In case you are concerned about picking a server will restrict you to a certain place, it won't. A couple months ago I did a poll asking people from where they were seeing my post, and of around 6.5k votes 96% were from outside the instance I'm at, gamedev. Show this to your friends that are worried about the onboarding process of picking a servers.

mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink