I run my own instance, the benefit is privacy and reliability. Everything is controlled on your own server. You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage. Been a problem with Lemmy.ml recently.

Depends how many people you are hosting for. But what you describe seems overkill, I think Lemmy.ml just upgraded to a 6 core cpu and 32gb of ram and they have 30k+ members.

The political views of the main devs are controversial but it doesn’t really matter since Lemmy is free and open source. No one owns or runs it. Only lemmy.ml specifically is run by the devs.

I think the fing-longer, if only he could have invented it.

I doubt they will ever match the original style of Futurama, given that it seems to be a lot of new writers, but I also think new writers will give the new seasons a different style that could end up going either way.

Lemmy instances seem to have trouble seeing content from kbin instances for some reason.