I'm increasingly gaining appreciation for the atproto model of differentiating hosting your own data from hosting your own webview and your own moderation - I don't *want* to host my own Mastodon frontend, but I can't otherwise host my data locally. Equally, tangled lets me keep my git repos and metadata in a format I can migrate without needing to worry about hosting an entire forge myself. This seems closer to what most users interested in data ownership would want?
@mjg59 Why do you need a Mastodon frontend with Mastodon ? Can't you host just the API and use an app of your chosing and never expose the UI?
@penguin42 The webview seems like the lightest part of it? I'd still need postgres and redis and sidekiq and to worry about database migrations and everything.