I selfhost on a cheap VPS I found on LowEndBox. The security setup (not SimpleLogin) was more involved than SimpleLogin. Pretty easy to get working and I’ve had not a single issue in 1.5 years of selfhosting it. I pay $11/yr for the VPS compared to $30/yr for SimpleLogin.

With regard to your specific questions - I’ve only selfhosted for myself with one domain. You can add multiple users and domains though.

Rob McElhenney stays getting no love.

Does Zero Trust allow you to run things on ports your ISP blocks, a la email/port 25?

I run SimpleLogin on a VPS and if I can save $11/yr moving it home I’d definitely do it.

Pretty sure lemmy.world is just a dude, and it’s one of the largest instances.

I think the multiple communities of the same topic across different instances is a mistake honestly. Information/discussion should be concentrated, not spread about a bunch of places.

I read on here they are working on a method that would allow communities across instances to merge. I hope that happens.

Imo, federation should mean the same communities are replicated across all instances. If an instance wants to house its own content, they can maybe make a community that isn’t replicated to all the others but accessible nonetheless by everyone (ie Piracy community, maybe not every instance owner wants to replicate that to their instance).

I dunno, the bifurcation of communities just seems like a mistake and less efficient than everyone in the same place sharing knowledge and ideas.

…what? Isn’t the whole point of lemmy to be federated?