We love to be the home of smaller communities, but for sure, any larger ones should look into running on their own setup. If you need help, drop us a line!
Yeah, I love Inoreader cause it's got a paywall jumper built in, even on the free plan. I've been wanting to get a self hosted one, but they are all a PITA to setup or don't have a good multi device sync.
The key is to tag all your posts, so other people can find them. You get followers here and there, but not too often. I never post of Lemmy, but post a ton of stuff on Mastodon. TBH, I mostly doom scroll RSS these days.
I've never seen anything fishy from them, many people trust them for their work notes.
It's all .md files you own.