Crikey, I ran Laconica back in 2009 when @evan@cosocial.ca still had a moustache.
I have also hosted GotoSocial and Pleroma. Never took the step to get Mastodon running (seemed too heavyweight, complex and intimidating).
However, I can't emphasise how different #LittleFedi is for a normal, non-technical user who has some spare hosting capacity available and just wants to install, configure a Fediverse presence and then forget about it.
Which seems precisely the design aim of LittleFedi and this quote from @stefano@bsd.cafe really resonated with me.
'What I kept wanting was something I could put on a small machine, in a corner, and then stop
thinking about. No runtime to keep current, no database server to babysit, no container stack, no
build pipeline that breaks the week I am travelling'.
https://littlefedi.org/index.html
[ PS. I received no authentic Italian pizzas for creating this post ]