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I'd love to, but I don't have the extra funds to host an instance.
Why not on a public instance?
I didn't know that was an option. When I searched how to set up a Lemmy instance, all the websites I was directed to said I had to pay for a VPS or something about cloud storage? i don't know much about how the fediverse works...
Oh, no problem. Instances are something else than what you call "subs". What you want is a "community".
An Instance is, essentially, a standalone social media platform. That means that, regardless of the rest of the fediverse, you can have users, communities, posts and comments there. The fun part is, though: Instances can choose to "federate" with each other. That means the posts from the communities on another instance are synced to yet another instance. At some point it almost doesn't matter which instance you signed up on - you can interact with the others posts and communities no problem.
For example: Your account is on lemmy.world, mine on lemmy.ohaa.xyz. The community this post was made on is on lemmy.world too, but the original poster is on leminal.space.
edit: im way too tired rn so i hope this mess of grammar makes any sense to you edit: fixed the mess
Thank you for the explanation, I still have a lot to learn it seems. I should dig deeper on how to set up a public community (it's free to do so, right?), there's a few I'd like to start. Hopefully difficulty level is low, haha.
Creating a community is pretty easy and free. Lemmy.world allows users to do so on their instance. The hardest thing with communities is keeping them alive and removing unfitting posts. (Side note: Moderating communities isnt well-federated, it's a bug. You should have and use an account on the same instance as your community)
You can try advertising your new community somewhere such as !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Creating an instance, while not impossible, requires you to have your own server. Wether this be a paid Vserver/VPS you pay monthly for, or an always-running pc. It also requires quite a bit of knowledge about using said server correctly and securely
First look into a good instance for hosting a community. Some allow anybody to create communities, some don't. Some also have server side spam filters ready.