I still need to look into self-hosting Lemmy some time, but alas, it takes time lol
I'm even more tempted now that lemmy.one, my main instance I was using, appears to be down with a database issue according to its API. Which of course means if they don't have working backups, it may actually just be gone forever, along with my post history there.
Shame, I was considering using them since the idea of having an instance with no community creation to save on bandwidth was an interesting concept and I needed to get out of lemmy.world because of its stability issues