Hi Gargron, ideally I want both, obviously! I like Mastodon, as open source software that can federate with other instances, it's very neat. I'm just disappoint

Hi Gargron, ideally I want both, obviously! I like Mastodon, as open source software that can federate with other instances, it's very neat. I'm just disappointed that the federation specification is too hard for me to get working, and that appears to be the case for other people as well, given how many fail to implement it. I did follow your tutorials, by the way, but I got stuck on certain things (cryptographic signing being the main one I remember), couldn't test them easily with the test suite being down, and gave up eventually. Am I too stupid? Probably. But I can imagine a spec that gives me practically everything I want in a decentralised Twitter replacement being almost as simple as RSS or JSONfeed for example, which took me a few hours to implement.