Step one for setting up my own Fediverse instance is now complete. Still need to setup a reverse proxy and TLS to actually use it for anything.
Things I learned:
- Was pretty easy (about 30 minutes so far)
- Works fine on a $5 VPS
- Pleroma defaults to 5,000 character toot limit (but >500 won't be relayed to default Mastodons)
- Although turned off by default, you can even access the instance's public timelines over the Gopher protocol (!) https://blog.soykaf.com/post/gopher-support-in-pleroma/
