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I'm in the process of upgrading my Plex server, once that's done I plan hosting my own Lemmy instance on the old server to test it out for personal use.
You absolutely don't need to be hosting any communities and can use it just for your own control over your access to the fediverse.
Yes, big instances are not ready to handle the traffic and could go down - see lemmy.ml
Been trying to find out how; kinda funny googling it brings up reddit links on a protesting reddit sub.
Pros: you [sort of] own your Fediverse identity; you can make any changes to your instance you want (if you know how to do it); you’re in control of whom you peer with.
Cons: maintenance burdens (especially if you make any changes); content discovery complexity; possibly slightly less privacy (as you’re the only user of the instance, whatever is visible about it can be directly attributed to your activity). All solvable, of course.
For me the benefit is uniformity (not sure if thats a word) i can have a matrix account, a mastodon account, a lemmy account, all sorts of fediverse accounts all under my own domain.
This comes next to the already mentioned benefits ofcourse :)
In my navigation of the fediverse the last few days I've noticed a few people running instances of mastodon and lemmy with just themselves or 1 or 2 other people etc.
If you into tinkering and selfhosting, why not :D Means you're in full control of what other instances you federate with/can see etc.