Do keep in mind that Mastodon is build on a tech stack that's mainly known for not being very efficient since it solved the scaling question with the answer "th

Do keep in mind that Mastodon is build on a tech stack that's mainly known for not being very efficient since it solved the scaling question with the answer "throw more computer at it". (In other words, it's a Rails app.) It's not very suitable for a free social media network since it's designed in a way to encourage large silos since that's the only way Rails scales from a financial perspective; you need more from a smaller core of users as opposed to having every user pay a tiny amount. There's other AP implementations that aren't a constant server hog like Mastodon is and can run on much weaker hardware (some of it can run on a raspberry pi). You don't need a full rails stack if your user count never exceeds 100 (which y'know, is the ideal state of AP - small communities who can remotely interact with each other).