@Gargron so I'm on Mastodon.social 

An hour and brings back memories of aeons. Now I'm hooked. How do I set up my own instance?

@Behuman @Gargron

Did you try feeding your question to Google? It knows everything.

@BobC humans make much better filters than engines. Besides no one knows I exist if I ask Google... Except Google and he knows too much about me already :-p

@Behuman

Many folks have written excellent Mastodon instance creation tutorials. Google will help you find them.

@Gargron is immensely busy writing the next Masto release and keeping the massive mastodon.social running.

Is it at all fair to ask him for a personal answer to a question that already has many excellent answers out there?

@BobC I hear you.

@Behuman

Unless, of course, you're already backing his efforts on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

In that case, I'd ask ask him there. He'll probably answer a supporter.

@BobC thanks. I appreciate your feedback.
@Behuman @Gargron Who do you plan to have on the instance you want to setup? A single one? Or open?
@Gargron @james private instance initially.