Open social operates somewhat like email, where you don't need to be on the same server as someone else, but it can make things easier. For the most part, if y

Open social operates somewhat like email, where you don't need to be on the same server as someone else, but it can make things easier. For the most part, if you are running your own email server for you family, it might make sense to run your own mastodon server. You can have control over your file storage, etc.