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@ada I’m old enough to remember embrace, extend, extinguish from Microsoft and can understand why people might be wary, but if the fediverse is to reach its full potential, then this stuff needs to be simple to deploy and right now it really isn’t.
There's at least one not cloudflare company doing this, though I think I forget their name. It might be yunohost.org, they definitely do provide mastodon hosting, but there might have been one that focused more specifically on hosting fediverse instances. I've heard testimonials for them saying they take the sysadmin work out of running instances, but I suspect most of these people already have some technical background so it's hard to say how helpful it really is.
I don't think it's really that important to have a highly streamlined deployment process, mostly because I don't really see the value in single-user or micro instances, but that's a matter of preference
@anova There are lots. I have my own mastodon instance with Spacebear.ee. They spin up an instance, make you the admin, and you just have to point DNS at it. They handle the software updates, etc.