nostr:npub10qk497xf7vv49wdsejj47mmdhpnmnrgucjq6aance8g57kvf8yuq52v462 nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 it is ;) if I move to self host later, I will almsot definitely go for Pleroma. Mastodon (the server software suite) is not exactly designed to be light or even super efficient.

As to the ES dependency question, it’s because ES is much better suited to this sort of thing. It’s designed to do efficient full text searching at scale. Postgres optimizes for other things. It does technically have the ability to do FTS but it’s not nearly as good at scale.