My first post here. Last week I decided to try to run my own instance. That was quite an adventure. I strongly dislike Mastodon and the culture around it (and I don't like that guy Rochko), so it was not an option and my natural choice was Pleroma which I used for a long time on Starnix and Annihilation (thanks, @splitshockvirus and @dcc you're the best). Surprisingly, Pleroma proved itself like pretty crunky piece of software. I tried both OTP install and building from sources, in both cases server looked working but couldn't see Federation completely. I suspected that I messed up with my Nginx config, but GoToSocial worked absolutely fine with the same configuration. Unfortunately, GoToSocial had quite a poor functionality for my needs and I disliked the idea of using third-party frontends like Semaphore. Then I tried Akkoma. Pretty problematic installation (tools that didn't work or refused to download dependencies that were absolutely accessible via curl), I never saw a mess like this. It could connect to Federation but it worked very unstable, some users were absolutely impossible to follow. Eventually, I wiped this shit from my server. I started suspecting that something is really wrong witn Elixir developers.
Finally, I tried Misskey. Despite of installation manual written half in Japanese, it was the least problematic installation of all, and this Japanese monstrosity immediately started working without any issues. Somebody might say it's rather bloated, but I prefer to call it feature rich. It's pretty unfamiliar for me (notes/renotes? hmm... seriously? Channels? Antennas?), but I'm beginning to really like it, and I think, I finally have found my own home.