@vidar @vitruvianmeeple @catvalente @mastodonmigration Yep and just like how there's mastodon forks like glitch-social or hometown, you can easily make a soapbox fork. There's some soapbox fork for example for some guy's instance to allow it to work better with Akkoma (a Pleroma fork) and with modifications for his own site. Rebased is also another Pleroma fork as well.

There's also at least two Misskey forks such as FoundKey and Calckey.

This is the cool part about the AGPL license used on the fedi. Nobody "owns" the software. Even if you hate the developer, you can fork it and fix features the developer removed for example or add in ones he won't add.

While Soapbox did have a stigma due to the people who initially ran instances with it, I know a friend who is running a pro LGBT furry instance with it for example and I know someone else who is trans trying to run an art instance with it. As long as you make sure to specify in your rules exactly what your views are, you'll be fine running one with it blocklist wise.

The other thing with Pleroma and it's forks and other fedi software, is they are a lot less resource heavy than Mastodon is IMO.

https://gist.github.com/Gargron/aa9341a49dc91d5a721019d9e0c9fd11

Recently there was a semi viral post as well about how a Mastodon instance was having to spend 800 Euro a month to be hosted for a 15k user instance, and then SDF needed excessive high-end hardware to run a 50k user instance.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras/109375786255688867