@spacerog

My instance is running Pleroma (https://pleroma.social/). It is running on a smallish FreeBSD VM via my personal colo server. I already run my own mail, web and other services here (and I'm a sys admin by training), so I would say its worth it personally.

I looked at Mastodon first when I considered moving off of my prior fediverse server and I wasn't too interested in maintaining a Ruby webapp. I have quite a bit of experience supporting Ruby and have nothing against it, but its just not my cuppa tea. Pleroma is written in Elixer/Erlang which I also have quite a bit of experience with and IMHO its more fun to hack on, so that helped tip the balance.

There are also some other lightweight fediserverse servers out there since I choose Pleroma, one of which I'd probably take a close look if I was doing this today is Honk (https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk).

Having said all that - I *like* hacking on computers and really want to control my internet footprint as much as possible. So this have been an overwhelming net positive. The support overhead for Pleroma/PostgreSQL isn't too much, and if something breaks i'm the only one effected.