Okay I am back over at the shop again, because while hosting a masto instance was a fun adventure for a bit, the hosting costs for me to shout into the void with four other people were ... prohibitive.

@ElectricDryad This is really funny to me because I've been sitting here for the last few days thinking "I should make my own instance..."

Unfortunately I'm not good at heeding warnings.

Also, the host I'm on right now is planning to go down for a considerable amount of time for a complete revamp of the site, and I need something to do in the meantime.

@PublicBearwaves Do YOU want to stand up an instance at the extremely excellent domain name neongrove.social? :P It's so good... I just don't know what to do with it. 😖

@ElectricDryad If I hadn't literally just picked up my own excellent domain at ursa.solar then I absolutely would.

If the hosting costs are the main problem and getting them lower would help, perhaps Pleroma or Misskey would be more suitable? I'm not very familiar with them myself, I just know they're broadly compatible within the Fediverse and are supposed to be much more light weight and resource friendly than Mastodon is.