I’ve not used it as FTP as it wasn’t built for that. It was, however, brilliant for messaging. In regards to some comment below about the domain - you could always spin up a little unbound instance (+wireguard for your own stuff everywhere).

I’ve set up an XMPP server a few years ago. It worked beautifully!

CPU time has never been an issue for me, really. I am intrigued by Gentoo on a SteamDeck - how well does that work? I imagine a very tight thermal headroom gets in a way every now and then.

Try installing the newest kernel available as that’s where hardware support comes from. Since you’re on an Ubuntu based distro - you could use somerthing like ukuu. Or just switch to a more rolling release type of distro.

Usability-wise - absolutely agreed. I do wonder if it’s possible to implement it on a technical level in a way that does not cripple smaller instances.

We had a wave small wave of what really looked like bot accounts. Purged them from the database.

Gentoo, mostly. Some Arch and Debian testing here and there.