They say, it doesn't matter which Mastodon instance you sign up with. You can still communicate with the entire Fediverse and when push comes to shove, you can also always move. Well, push came to shove for me and I had to move. So let's talk about the giant asterisk that belongs after both of those claims.

I wanted a simple way to display relevant discussions that may naturally happen on Mastodon related to my articles, without the complexity of setting up my blog as an ActivityPub server/actor.

This blogpost may be a bit old but is very valid as it goes through the points that an admin has to keep an eye on, verify the proper work and maintain regarding a Mastodon instance

Spawn a Nginx webserver with a bunch of static JSON files that behaves like a Mastodon instance

Thats a simples script to import yours tweets from any Twitter account to a Mastodon account, in any instance.