Debian works well for a server.
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Ubuntu Server (Or really just Ubuntu) is probably going to be the easiest in terms of package support, general support, and usability. It's pretty straightforward and there's infinite tutorials for everything you could possibly want to do
Yep. Could consider Lubuntu too.
OPs usecase is for server. afaik gui is useless for that.
Debian is the classic server choice. If you don't have any server administration experience, I'd consider it just for that reason: there should be a ton of resources available. If you want something else, any RPM-based distro (like Fedora Server, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, or even RHEL) could be another option, with Rocky Linux probably being the best choice out of those.
Alternatively, I'd consider NixOS or Alpine. NixOS is what I use on most of my servers, however both have attributes that might make them worse for a beginner. NixOS uses a custom programming language to configure the operating system, while Alpine is much more minimal than most other server distributions. On the off chance that you have experience with a functional language like Haskell, though, NixOS might be the best choice, since it having a unified configuration for the whole system makes it very convenient for hosting usecases.
I'd also like to note that I run both a single-user Mastodon and Lemmy instance, and find them both fairly easy to manage. There's also GoToSocial, which is specifically designed to be easy to deploy.
Try UnRaid!
checked out their website, and it seems great!
It is so easy.
It’s all built on slack so the core of it runs on potato.
The idea is you whack it on a USB and boot off that. All your drives become an array for UnRaid and you can easily generate a swarm of dockers or VMs to do whatever you want.
They have a massive catalog of docker apps ready to rock, including a WefWef Lemmy client!