Gregory's Server>> Eugen is very opinionated ...
There. Nail, meet Hammer. Right on the head and SO true.
If I ever decide to run an instance, other than my personal Write.freely (private, non federated) -- it will NOT be a mastodon or a variant. GlitchSocial is better. But Pleroma, that's State of the Art for me.
Have three Dell Powerservers on hand too. But I just wouldn't want to commit to hosting a big public instance and keeping it for long run, like you do here (and we all are thankful). Those Dells could be useful someday, a local emergency library is possibility; we can't take the Internet as a permanent fixture, forever, it might not happen.
@design_RG At some point I will experiment with a pleorma instance and if we have community support might even migrate.
The feature set on pleorma is quickly starting to surpass mastodon (which is largely why i picked mastodon). so you may find we migrate at some point.. I'd have to test it first.
Basically once pleorma gets groups it will probably be a deal breaker if mastodon isnt even close to that yet.