This is great news. Algorithm optimized social networks are poison to society.

I’m itching so hard to block both.

Supporting both is in order. As one is pointless without the other

A design that scales. Forwarding every like, post and comment to all federated servers will not scale well.

Mastodon exists. It’s pretty good. Using 2 apps is fine.

I write down everything I built so for plus future plans in OneNote. This kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting but I want to keep a written copy complete off site in case if a complete loss. Plus I like OneNote. It’s actually a well designed product. Scripts, docker compose files and such are in GitHub.

OP is correct. We have very little to to gain and everything to lose.