If you are on a quest for a blogging platform, you could also consider Friendica:
https://friendi.ca/
It connects to the Fediverse and much more (bluesky, diaspora, email, discourse..). It offers more than Mastodon technically but it is way behind in terms of design with its Facebook 2010 look.

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