I want to set up a collaborative writing/socializing platform for my friend group using something like Calckey/Misskey, and just want to know if this is possible.
The non Fediverse options all look very lacking, and are meant for corporate/business environments anyway. It really feels like there’s not many good and modern options for this sort of thing, but maybe there’s better alternatives. Who knows, I’m really new to this scene.
You can run Lemmy private, without any federation.
If you are looking for something facebookish, than you could look at WordPress with BuddyPress plugins for example.