It was a fun experience trying to get to all work. I did originally try on my raspberrypi but I ended up just giving up on that due to the issues you mentioned. But it's nice to have my own instance, and slowly populating the all feed with new subscriptions and well I owned the domain va11halla.bar I had to use it for my name.

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I can't answer them all but I'll try the ones I can as a solo/small instance

1. I don't know about suggested, but I'm someone who likes to tinker and look behind the scenes a little so that's why I made my own instance, plus being in control of everything. Also having my name @va11halla.bar is pretty cool

4. The account is gone, no migration. Part of why I made my own instance is because my old was deleted. Due to federation you can still find content you posted at least, assuming it was federated beforehand

5. You'll have to federate everything yourself if its your own instance. The all tab takes into account the subscriptions of everyone on the instance, so you'll see a lot less if you have a lot less users on your instance. The local tab takes in to account communities on that instance only.

Yea I keep an eye on the website and devlog just hoping for something! Seems they don't want to share more until they have a solid release date based on the latest blog entry they did for anniversary.

I actually slept well for once which is always good. Waking up not knowing what year it is is a great feeling.

As someone running their own instance, since the update, new posts on lemmy.world have been federating comments fine from what I can tell. However posts from before the update were really hit and miss (mostly miss tbh) and I don't think they'll automatically be fixed.

Good work upgrading! I can't imagine it being too easy with a big instance.

I had issues with comments not federating to my own instance before this update (showing 0 for hours). Opening up this up now showed most of them right away if not all. Hopefully that means 0.18.1 fixed a fair few issues people had with federation.

VA-11 Hall-A! One of my favourite VN if my instance url didn't give it away. It's not too long, listen to the start telling you to get cozy and then mix drinks and change lives.

My old instance was deleted by the admin and all the posts are still possible to reach via other instances. Well maybe some got lost that maybe didn't get fetched by others, I'm not sure, but when I wanted to go back and save the posts that were "lost" they were there at least.