You can definitely set up your own Mastodon server. I don't know how hard it is to get other servers to federate with you because I don't want to take on the o

You can definitely set up your own Mastodon server. I don't know how hard it is to get other servers to federate with you because I don't want to take on the overhead of running a server. Discussions of running your own mail server make it sound like it's difficult because you have to get Microsoft and Google to accept your mail and they tend to let it go into the spam folder and not respond to you. Will mastodon.social federate with HellsMaddy.social? Maybe. Can you use me@hellsmaddy.com? No.