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Just cracked my phone screen. It's 3am. Trying not to cry.
It turns out that running an instance is *not* super easy
@qonnyr scratch is one of those crazy awesome projects that needs more attention (and also that i know very little about, but _it looks so cool_)
Fediverse: you can run your own instance, like email; but you can @-message anybody, like on Twitter
@nancybaym email is the closest example I think
