what if, an alternative to both mastodon _and_ pleroma, which is much less memory-heavy and is a single executable file you drop on your server
help us out #rustodon
https://github.com/rustodon/rustodon
@rotatingskull well, you can build it from source then lol
given the amount of trust put in mastodon's massive codebase (when considering deps, node, ruby), a prebuilt binary is not that bad for most people