I was also pondering about that. Even though I haven’t really looked into how it all works behind the scenes in depth, on high level I do think it makes a lot of sense to separate content hubs (communities) and consumers (users).

Thanks for doing this experiment! I was really curious if it was technically possible (but not using Mastodon so wasn’t able to test it myself), and now I know 😊

This is really interesting to hear, never thought of these services allowing enough access to effectively use something self-hosted for consolidation. Will definitely look into it!