The problem with running a personal instance is that your posts hardly get seen, unless people are following you already on it.

Mastodon has a profile redirect feature, but it currently does not work cross platform.

The only way a personal instance is effective is if it's federating, and the fastest way to federate is to have more people! Therefore, welcome to https://panoptic.onl

Registration is now available to the people. I personally toot from @tonic ; and am excited to see you there!