I am struggling with decision paralysis trying to choose an instance. I’ve never been on Mastodon before.
I am tired of euro-centric and US-centric Internet spaces, but still enjoy the international aspect. Are there any instances with decent international presence?
The only thing about self hosting is recruiting people otherwise you’re posting to an empty room. Sorry I don’t have a suggestion but unless you really want to self host to learn I would find a server that suits you first then maybe peel some folks off to your own server.
If I self host, can’t I do it as a single user instance? Is cross instance discovery not good in its current state?
You can easily deliver/receive content using relay. I also host a intance for myself and people see my posts in federated timeline, and follow if they want to