I followed this super helpful guide by @simon to set up a custom Mastodon instance: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodon
It was pretty easy, and I'm getting great vibes of circa-2005 indie blogs from this whole experience. Here's hoping this sticks!
Getting Mastodon running on a custom domain
til.simonwillison.net
@adrian@social.holovaty.com @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net I can also recommend https://microblog.pub/ which is basically a single-user Mastodon (an ActivityPub powered microblog.)
Homepage
microblogpub's microblog
@beshr Thanks! I opted to go with a hosted solution, but that looks nice as well.