sometimes I wonder how many other people like me were reading with great interest about distributed social networks in 2011 or so and started thinking "ok, I should see about running my own" and opened a tab and read the words "step 1 is to install PHP [or npm]" and then closed the tab
@technomancy ++, but there's so many things... (container-*only* distribution, MySQL/MariaDB as a hard requirement...)
I didn't run my own ActivityPub server until I found Takahe/Incarnator (in retrospect, I should've picked GotoSocial :(