> 1. A single person can run a mastodon instance in their spare time. Spinning up some containers for the app, a background worker and a database is quite simpl

> 1. A single person can run a mastodon instance in their spare time. Spinning up some containers for the app, a background worker and a database is quite simple. Yes, using open source code built and maintained by 732 contributors: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/graphs/contributors https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/graphs/contributors