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?
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