picking a mastodon server to join is easy -- just think of it like you're allying with one of many families in a war-torn medieval land, each with their own histories, feuds, laws, blood rituals
@eclectech @Alexis I had spare kit around which was small enough to keep out of the way at home. re-use ftw.
also new dmz and careful googling of required ports
@eclectech @Alexis (just don't tell mary where the spare memory from her gaming laptop ended up installed ;)
@evilstevie @Alexis I am amused and alarmed in equal amounts that I only lasted a couple of days on an existing server before we decided to setup our own instance.
I like to think it was mainly because we could, and because everything was so busy it seemed a sociable thing to do, but a little bit of me is also *builds castle*