"This wasn’t just about learning new technology. This was about using infrastructure as political resistance."
@watchfulcitizen, 2025
A manifesto in 2 sentences. Nailed it! ☝️
BTW Have you considered replacing Medium with hosting your own blog, using one of the many blogging apps that have ActivityPub support in core (eg WriteFreely), or as an add-on (eg WordPress, Ghost)? Some more examples (not an exhaustive list);
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#blogging
"Mastodon is architecturally complex in ways the documentation doesn’t prepare you for. You need the main web app, a streaming API, multiple background job queues, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch all working together. Each component scales differently and fails in its own special way."
@watchfulcitizen
https://libmedium.batsense.net/watchfulcitizen/i-started-my-own-social-media-server-because-i-couldnt-sleep-1cd5bc615ff1
Mastodon is it's own special mess ; ) AFAICT it's the most resource-intensive way to host fediverse account. Have you looked into alternatives like GoToSocial?