As an IT, infosec and Internet OG, I truly enjoy how raw and "she's about to blow captain" Lemmy feels. It reminds me of the mid to late nineties when everything was iffy as fuck.
It’s a big group self-hosting project. I love it. It starts to change your mind about what’s possible with the development of all these shared protocols, especially with how efficient you can make them.
You can run a relatively small instance on a NAS if you wanted. I like the idea of even more fragmented projects where everyone just hosts for themself and there’s just a syncing protocol in between. Does give you a lot of attack vectors, but also makes any one attack not that impactful if isolation is good.