[nokya]

In my case, a very high value comes from the ability to search for posts. Mastodon isn't good at this (euphemism).

From my very limited knowledge in software engineering, I guess this is the killer feature that separates a low-cost initiative, that mostly involves keeping the server patched and running, from a highly expensive operation, that would require more expensive hardware, advanced knowledge in hosting infrastructures and experience in software engineering in order to handle all the complexity that will derive from the search capability.

For this reason only I can't use Mastodon at the moment.