@benBen Werdmuller must say, I have to disagree on:

> Easy to spin up: where launching and running your own Mastodon community is as simple as starting a blog.

From: werd.io/2025/if-i-ran-mastodon

Running an online community isn't just running the software, but moderating, managing and growing that community β€” that's the critically hard part. Anyone can go to masto.host or similar and get a mastodon server, but the community ops work is the stuff that's the _really_ hard thing to solve.

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