Someone on your instance needs to be following for it to get pulled into "all" on your instance. On a large instance that might be rather "all" encompassing, but it's an important distinction. On a fresh single-user instance "all" will contain zero posts.
Bro, most of us just moved from Reddit and are lurkers. Bitwarden is just that good. I just migrated from keepass.
Governments have been PAYING to inform the public via commercial services for... ever? And requiring citizens to do the same. Have you ever seen a public notice in a newspaper? At least posting on Twitter is free (for now).
I use Unraid as my host OS with a Windows 11 gaming vm. If you say at my computer you would never know it's not native. I can shutdown/reboot windows and it doesn't affect any of my home server applications, including a mastodon instance.
It blows my mind that in my jurisdiction dogs need to be registered, up to date on shots, leashed, kept on your property. Cats are a free for all. They can be left outside and are free to trespass. They kill over 2 billion birds a year in the US alone. Cats piss on everything on my property, use my yard as a litter box. I had to take down my bird feeders because it was a death trap. And there is NOTHING I can do about it. Fuck cats. For good measure, fuck irresponsible dog owners, too.
I've been using the Motorola MA1 for over a year and it has been flawless. Don't even think about it, it just works.
It's called docker. Linuxserver.io offers very close to "mastodon in a box". https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/mastodon