@alienghic oh, I mean you can use postgres if you want to, but I can't comment on how easy it is to use because I haven't tried that
I've been slowly shifting over from this account to my gts one, and I've noticed that being on a single-user instance makes you a much lower-profile target for reply guys and spam
I copied the instance blocklist from icosahedron.website into my own instance and that has served me well so far; subscribing to shared blocklists is on the roadmap for the next release but currently all it has is import/export of blocklist CSVs
I really hate the default mastodon UI so I've been using pinafore/tusky since 2018 or so, so to me mastodon and gts feel almost indistinguishable except for the fact that mastodon lacks markdown support, which sucks