I'm running Mastodon and yes it is quite a big software but it is fairly lightweight if you run a one person instance. The biggest advantage is that it's rock solid. I had zero problems running or upgrading it in the last um 5 years or something.
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I’m running pleroma with bdx-town/mangane ui. Does the trick looks slick. Could have moved to akkoma but haven’t. Been running for ~ 3 years.
GoToSocial is designed for small / single user instances. There's more with similar goals like snac, seppo, pub, ktistec, tapir, shuttlecraft, activities.next, and microblog.pub, but I haven't really looked into them so I'm not sure on the status of each. There's a nice list of activitypub software at delightful fediverse apps if you want to look at more options.
Idk, choose whatever you like from here
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=minimal+activitypub&t=iphone&ia=web
You can use nostr alternatively, although I’m not sure if there’s any “lighter” alternative