> There's not much point in self-hosting your Mastodon service if it's just you and a few of your buddies That would imply that you did something so gross that

> There's not much point in self-hosting your Mastodon service if it's just you and a few of your buddies That would imply that you did something so gross that everybody blacklisted your server. Currently there's only a couple instances that are blocked everywhere, and those were used solely for spam or mass harassment I think – single user instances are fine.