For those asking why I am thinking about setting up my own Mastodon instance: it's because I would like to have a permanent identity linked to a domain I control, as opposed to being on a specific random instance I might want to leave later, thereby losing my identity/established network.
@buzz i’m doing this as an experiment and i’m thinking of managing it for a friend group / their friends. but i don’t know how worth it it is for a single user