If you have the technical know-how it isn't too bad. Equally, moderation and accepting accounts shouldn't be too much hassle. There are other Admins and devs on Matrix who will lend advice if you need it.

What you need to do is to invest a bit of time into planning to make the instance sustainable, especially as you are planning on running an instance for your country.

Get at least one more Admin onboard, so there is some redundancy.
Accept donations - Open Collective is very good for this as you you can use a fiscal host who will hold the money for you. When you hit a critical mass the donations should cover expenses and scale well as your user numbers grow.
Plan contingencies for if you are too busy to oversee the site or you don't want to do it any more, don't just drop off the radar.

I say, go for it and if you need any help then there are a lot of people around who are more than happy to do what they can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is encouraging, I'll probably go and do it. Thanks for the insight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Let us know how it goes and drop me a line on Matrix and I'll invite you to relevant groups. There is plenty of help there.

I helped take over the running of feddit.uk after the Admin went AWOL, so the situation is a bit different, but the lessons we learned are largely transferable to your case. So getting it up.ans running should be the easy bit, ensuring it can keep running is where all the planning and hard work comes in.