I considered self-hosting, but an email server is already more complex than I want to manage and a Mastodon server is much more so.
I have no affiliation here, but there’s lots of places like masto.host where you can pay to host your own instance. Sure, someone running your VM might do something awful. But… that’s cloud hosting.
I have no affiliation here, but there’s lots of places like masto.host where you can pay to host your own instance. Sure, someone running your VM might do something awful. But… that’s cloud hosting.