Oh it's that connected? For some reason I thought it was more involved. Maybe I will look into hosting it on the personal EKS cluster and get some real use out of it looks like it would be as simple as installing the https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/si-gitops/mastodon helm chart and setting up a domain. Thanks for convincing me ha.
Unless you want 100% Mastodon API / quirks compatibility, I'd skip the original Mastodon source and go for something like Akkoma[1] (it's a fork of Pleroma) - easier to install and much lighter in resource use.
If you're only ever going to be single-user, Ktistec[2] might be worth a look
Or if you want to go ultra-minimal, there's Honk[3].
(GoToSocial is an up-and-comer but I'm having weird issues with it talking to other instances. But they're working on these things.)
I kind of just want to self host right now with 100% Mastodon API compatibility, but I am a SRE and enjoy making personal infrastructure needlessly complex to reflect what you might see in an enterprise setup :)
