The commercialized shitshow that social media is really makes me respect the openness of the early web. Imagine tweets were an open standard, like HTML, hostable anywhere; clients were just rendering that, not owning the format; if one was being stupid you just use another one.
— Nina Stössinger (@ninastoessinger) November 17, 2020There is this thing called IndieWeb which is all about running your own server but being able to exchange likes & reposts via simple-ish protocols …
— Damian Cugley (@damiancugley) November 17, 2020
It doesn’t need to be that difficult if you don’t want the overhead and work. There are already a few paid IndieWeb friendly services that do the work for you: https://indieweb.org/Quick_Start