It isn't that tough to self-host, and then not only are you participating, you're helping to preserve the decentralization and robustness of the ecosystem. Centralization is what killed big tech, it's too easy to corrupt a single point of failure.
The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less any one provider needs to pay for hosting since instances only need to serve transactions between users that interact somehow. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less a loss of one provider damages the ecosystem. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more points of failure need to be corrupted to kill or take over the ecosystem.
The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less any one provider needs to pay for hosting since instances only need to serve transactions between users that interact somehow. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less a loss of one provider damages the ecosystem. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more points of failure need to be corrupted to kill or take over the ecosystem.
https://fediverse.express/ is a page with tools to set up an instance from one of several hosting services.
If you have hosting that only supports php and mysql, I believe friendica is more or less drop in. You upload it to your host and it'll more or less set itself up.
If you want to host using a home server, you can set up dynamic DNS to a GoDaddy hostname using the following link: https://www.instructables.com/Quick-and-Dirty-Dynamic-DNS-Using-GoDaddy/
If you're going to sell post at home, just be sure that your internet plan is robust enough. Your server is going to be constantly talking with other servers whether you are presently surfing or not.
If you'd like some more specific advice, I've gone through quite a bit of it myself so I'm willing to help however I can.
If you have hosting that only supports php and mysql, I believe friendica is more or less drop in. You upload it to your host and it'll more or less set itself up.
If you want to host using a home server, you can set up dynamic DNS to a GoDaddy hostname using the following link: https://www.instructables.com/Quick-and-Dirty-Dynamic-DNS-Using-GoDaddy/
If you're going to sell post at home, just be sure that your internet plan is robust enough. Your server is going to be constantly talking with other servers whether you are presently surfing or not.
If you'd like some more specific advice, I've gone through quite a bit of it myself so I'm willing to help however I can.
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