@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: https://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.