It was a fun experience trying to get to all work. I did originally try on my raspberrypi but I ended up just giving up on that due to the issues you mentioned. But it's nice to have my own instance, and slowly populating the all feed with new subscriptions and well I owned the domain va11halla.bar I had to use it for my name.

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I can't answer them all but I'll try the ones I can as a solo/small instance

1. I don't know about suggested, but I'm someone who likes to tinker and look behind the scenes a little so that's why I made my own instance, plus being in control of everything. Also having my name va11halla.bar is pretty cool

4. The account is gone, no migration. Part of why I made my own instance is because my old was deleted. Due to federation you can still find content you posted at least, assuming it was federated beforehand

5. You'll have to federate everything yourself if its your own instance. The all tab takes into account the subscriptions of everyone on the instance, so you'll see a lot less if you have a lot less users on your instance. The local tab takes in to account communities on that instance only.

I saw the domain was available and had to go for it. Wasn't sure what to do with it exactly, originally just gonna use it for email, but then the lemmy instance I was on went poof so I figured I could use it here too.

It's been a while since I read Neuromancer so I didn't recognise until now, maybe I should give it a reread. The instance before was Cyberpunk themed and we talked a little about books like Neuromancer and Hardwired (pretty good Cyberpunk book if you've not read), I'm not super knowledgeable about it, at least compared to others I was talking with, but I have a pretty big interest in Cyberpunk at least.

Yea I keep an eye on the website and devlog just hoping for something! Seems they don't want to share more until they have a solid release date based on the latest blog entry they did for anniversary.

Dungeon Maker is a fun little roguelike/strategy game I've been playing atm https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.GameCoaster.DungeonMaker&hl=en&gl=USYou hire and level monsters whilst building a sorta dungeon with traps for heroes.

Since you mentioned Minecraft and farming simulator, both Terraria and Stardew Valley are on android, though I can't speak for their quality or playability.

Emulators are a pretty good shout, PPSSPP was pretty great when I last used it which was a few years ago now, so I imagine possibly better now and the PSP had a decent selection of games.

You could also try Google Play Pass for a month and look at a few paid games and see if anything tickles your fancy there, but subscription service.

Try Connect or my personal favourite atm is Liftoff.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect&hl=en_US

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liftoffapp.liftoff&pli=1

I actually slept well for once which is always good. Waking up not knowing what year it is is a great feeling.

God I love their designs. Also Arlecchino my beloved!

As someone running their own instance, since the update, new posts on lemmy.world have been federating comments fine from what I can tell. However posts from before the update were really hit and miss (mostly miss tbh) and I don't think they'll automatically be fixed.