I've never managed to get the appeal of Twitter, though I stuck with it for a long while. Ditching it was a good move.
I noticed that super quickly once starting to poke around here. Even though I jumped on larger instances, seeing how easily people moved to other, smaller, more curated instances to get away from the rabble is always really heartening.
If you don't mind me asking, what prompted you to set up your own instance? Other than control, is there a benefit? Was it difficult?
And what prompted me to do it was just tinkering, trying stuff out because why not, it's fun. As with all my stuff, it was just for me and that's it, but my friends kept asking and asking and boom, now we have our own little community. In the end I'm proud of this little corner of the internet with me and my friends, feels good
Aaaaaand no, setting it is quite easy, at least compared to othr stuff I had to deal with. We were on mastodon before, its installation is the best documented, most easy thing, but it is HEAVY. Pleroma is soo light, it's great. That said maintaining Pleroma is quite of a pain, Mastodon is way nicer. You interested in setting one up?
Sorry for the wall of text lol
That's a fantastic answer, thank you!
I'm interested only from a curiosity and tinkering standpoint; I don't have any other friends that use mastodon (to my knowledge) so it would probably not become anything more.
Who knows if it'll end up happening or not, though. plenty of other things on the "to-tinker-with" list :D
