I’ve run my own Mastodon instance. And do run some other activitypub stuff too still.
It’s a pain in the ass to host / maintain. The biggest issue it does not scale at all and when you start to interact your infrastructure does get DDOSed when your engagement grows with the network.
Sebastix
npub1qe…ezefe
2025-06-14 12:16:59
in reply to nevent1q…0xws
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2025-06-14 12:16:59Event JSON
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