I haven't tried mastodon, but gnu social is pretty easy. There aren't enough tutorials on installing it, but I've had luck with the following (which I'm quotin

I haven't tried mastodon, but gnu social is pretty easy. There aren't enough tutorials on installing it, but I've had luck with the following (which I'm quoting myself from having posted them to previous comments): * https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ https://www.codeword.xyz/2015/09/27/self-hosting-gnu-social/ * https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-installing-gnu-social--cms-22456 https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-s...