Setting up my own Mastodon server
tenzer.dkPity the writeup didn't go into (or provide pointers to) how to go about it...
There is already pretty decent documentation on the Mastodon website for how to install and configure a server: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/prerequisites/.
If you'd like to see the NixOS way I used, I could probably make a separate blog post about that.
When I got started with Mastodon, I myself was trying to find resources on when or when not to run your own Mastodon server, but had a hard time of finding that, so I hoped the post at least could help answer that for other people, although my experience with running Mastodon obviously is limited for now.