You just dropped a mind bomb on me. Suddenly things make sense :o

Or old books! I just love the smell of books in general.

Sorry, are you converting it, lossily, twice? That's like twice the lossiness! Just convert it once.

That Wizard came from the Moon!

Second one, pretty sure. Daggerfall, you have been assigned a mission but end up marooned in a cave...dungeon...

Though maybe I'm misremembering the premise, and you do actually start as a prisoner

Nah. It's hearsay that i didn't look too deep into. But thanks to some replies I've found out that Pleroma also has its own problems. And considering what I'm intending to use such a platform for - following other people and occasionally posting updates of my own - Mastodon serves this purpose well. Plus, it's reasonably popular now, so it's more likely that people have it.