More than that, in this case. They're hosting an entire instance.

Beyond the fact that they created an entire instance -

> I guess "joins" means created account..

I do think this statement would be accurate, you are "joining" if you create an account.

At least I don't see an argument for how creating an official account wouldn't count as "joining" - although it's admittedly boring if that's all they did.

Well, they're running their own mastodon instance at wikimedia.social.

Yeah, I read the headline and was briefly completely mystified until I opened the article.

This reads like the title of s ‘Beautiful journey… chosen to join [company]’ post.

I guess "reading the article" means skip the headline and rush to the comment section to have your own special unique hot take.

...and their own server...

Even if that were the case, and others have pointed out it's not, what would your point be?

Yeah, joined by renting masto.host's service. Nothing against masto.host but Wikimedia are not running their own server, or really their own instance. It's a net positive but it's not the decentralised, independent example that it could be.