You get the most flexibility by hosting your own instance since you get access to all instances and all communities and you won’t be defederated from unless you act in a toxic way.
The only draw back is that you have to subscribe to each community individually since you won’t have a “local” timeline, especially not one as populated as lemmy.world.
But if that’s not a problem then self hosting, or the next best thing, choosing a small non-polemic instance is the way to go.
You get the most flexibility by hosting your own instance since you get access to all instances and all communities and you won’t be defederated from unless you act in a toxic way.
The only draw back is that you have to subscribe to each community individually since you won’t have a “local” timeline, especially not one as populated as lemmy.world.
But if that’s not a problem then self hosting, or the next best thing, choosing a small non-polemic instance is the way to go.
Could get expensive though, no?
I don’t think so. It’s not linear. And of course, if you host many users or a lot of content then you could ask for donations.