The fediverse is all about doing things your own way while maintaining compatibility with other fediverse servers. Unlike homogeneous services such as Twitter/X, each fediverse server type has a different purpose. This can be to facilitate discussions, publish longform articles, showcase images, or share your communal love of music. Alternatively, it can be to cram thousands of users into a virtual room and let them scream at each other.
Before you set up your instance, you need to decide what type of community you want to build and how your