> If mastodon is to be the poster child of the fediverse it needs to drastically simplify the requirements to run and maintain an instance. Completely agree.

> If mastodon is to be the poster child of the fediverse it needs to drastically simplify the requirements to run and maintain an instance. Completely agree. I tried to self-host Cloudflare's Wildebeest as part of the "own your own identity and content" dream and it was a complete disaster. It's an incomplete amalgamation of alpha-quality and production Cloudflare services and code with no real roadmap. It doesn't install properly out of the box using their own documentation and most clients will try to use some Mastodon/ActivityPub API that isn't implemented and fail. So unless you're looking to seriously hack on its codebase, I'd recommend staying away for a few years.