@owl Rust  

Yeah, I was really hoping to find some Rust alternative. The ones I've found so far are either not for microblogging or abandoned. Such a pity, because I think I would be much more willing to help with the development.

I know Golang enough to modify anything I might want in the GoToSocial source code. I just need to find the motivation to write Go...  But I joined the chat rooms and might send some patches in the future. If you want to try, I believe Golang is quite easy to pick up.. especially compared to Rust (I'm assuming you know Rust).

I want to try GoToSocial, but right now I am checking out Pleroma. Then I can compare what works better for me.

@owl I think that is the way to go indeed. Mastodon is too big/complicated that's why I'm not even considering trying to run it myself. That is from someone that has worked with Ruby on Rails for ~3 years.

Misskey I also do not even consider... I want to stay away from JS and its ecosystem as much as possible.

So I feel I'm left with GoToSocial and Pleroma.