As thankful as I am to the Fosstodon admins for hosting this instance, any time there's an outage I start to wonder if it's better for more users to self-host their own instances with simpler software like snac2 by @grunfink.
I know that there's high potential for runaway disk space usage (among other problems) but it sometimes feels risky to depend on larger servers run by people in their free time.
Administrating a Mastodon server with a decent amount of users must be a major headache.