The back going back an extra page feels like a bug that has to get fixed. I usually control+click links to open in a new tab (maybe not exactly what you want, but hopefully helps)

It was new, but old. I must have burned it in somewhere along the way and never notice. Not sure what changed. Oh well, thanks

The three major cloud providers all have marketplaces where people can “spin up” VMs that others host images of - here is an example of mastodon on Azure from bitnami - https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/bitnami.mastodon?tab=Overview

get one with an air dryer included!