@RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe snac is super duper lightweight. I personally love this software, and if you like lightweight UI too, then this might be a fit for you. Mastodon comes with more overhead, a database, some ruby environment stuff, opensearch in some cases, it's nothing i'd call super beginner friendly (you should have some basic linux admin knowledge imho) So my advice would be, have a look into snac. :) (Havent used the other mentioned, gotosocial or pleroma yet, so cant tell anything about that)