mastodon.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

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active users

it's often so complex to add to an already existing platform (for example ) and it gets even more complex if it is not built for social media 😱

For example

1. Deleting Users from the Fediverse, that still exist on the blog.
2. Delete the whole blog from the fediverse, but take temporary plugin deactivations/deletions into account.
3. Caching by third party plugins.
4. Shared hosting.
5. Posts and Comments in different DB tables
6. Publish only a subset of posts

7. Allow local comments and comments from the Fediverse, but don't mix them up.
8. Allow replies only for selected posts.
9. Follow the whole blog, selected autors or a mixture of all of them.
10. ...

...but it's still fun ...or perhaps precisely because of this 🙂