I was selfhosting a lemmy instance just for myself, to be able to connect and post to other instances. I had no communities or users. I ended up shutting it down because at the end of the day, I just don’t want stuff like CSAM making its way onto my home server because someone with ill intent bombarded a server I’m federated with. I still believe in the fediverse and lemmy in general, and no, I don’t think I’m going to get raided and arrested. But the fear just outweighed the pleasure I got from my little selfhosting project. I’m happy that other instances are up and running, and that I can post from them. I’ll also be excited to redeploy a personal server in the future when I feel that development has progressed enough that the risk to myself is low enough to still find pleasure in the project.