If I created my own instance, what would prevent all the others not federating with mine, or is it accepted by default ?

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Do you know -- do most people run cloud instances, or just a spare computer sitting in the closet collecting dust? I'd be tempted to looking into my own, but don't want to spend a small fortune keeping a large EC2 just because it sounded interesting one weekend.

well, I'd venture that most people in this sub are running locally, which is quite doable. But even on a cloud instance there isn't a lot of compute involved. The instances listed here for under USD 20/year would be fine: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186441/from-14-95-yr-openvz-7-2-ipv4-solusvm-lax-nyj-jax-raid-10-ssd#latest

I haven't heard of them before. Awfully reasonable pricing. I'll check them out, thanks!

You can absolutely host at home if youve got the speed and bandwidth. Just a matter of port forwarding and making sure security is good, maybe upgrade to a prosumer firewall. I use Unifi and host RUST game servers.

I can't speak for everyone, but when GPU prices were super high, I bought a prebuilt withe a graphics card for cheaper than just buying the card itself. I pulled the card out of that (swapped with my old one, actually), and now use that prebuilt with my old GPU as a server.