@dale I know it’s not straight forward today, but it’s the direction I think we need to move.
We can make the server software as easy to maintain as a WordPress site. We can have super cheap managed hosted options. The legal obligations are effectively a non-issue at < 50 people scale who aren’t pirates or pedophiles. Mastodon and other fediverse apps authors are working as fast as we can to improve the UX. Many Mastodon UX issues are already solved on other server implementations.