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Hosting an instance just for yourself?
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It's not really all that difficult to spin up your own "server". Sure, desktop hardware isn't exactly targeted towards running a web server, but for a purpose like your own Lemmy/federation, I'd imagine just about any old hardware from the last 5 years or so oughta be fine.
To me, the desktop hardware note sounds like you want to host the instance at home. In that case you need a suitable router, a static IP address or a DNS service, besides your own domain.
Not sure what specs are needed for a kbin instance, but pretty much anything running an x64 processor and a reasonable amount of ram should work, even if it's really old.
I think the biggest issue you might have is storage since as far as I understand everything you subscribe to is pushed and saved to your server, at least for a period