Hypothetically, let's say I spun up my own Mastodon instance, and then I registered my own account on it, and then I froze registrations at just me. This way, I'd be hosting my own account but nobody elses'

Is this a really stupid idea? Does it break a bunch of mastodon features? Would it be a giant pain in the ass to run?

@eqdw FWIW, I'm doing that right now. The only thing is to follow a decent number of other folks so that your federated timeline fills up with more stuff. It's been fairly easy to run so far