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now it showed up! I replied to your first comment, but I will paste it here and edit the other. This is a test thread, after all:

Yes, you can host an instance on Digital Ocean. Lemmy has a comprehensive guide in here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html

Edit: it took roughly 40 minutes, but the other comment showed up eventually.

@[email protected], for some reason, your second comment is only visible on beehaw for me. I was not notified, and I saw it just by chance, clicking on your comment from here. I can't comment in there without an account. Anyhow, yes, you can host an instance on Digital Ocean. Lemmy has a comprehensive guide in here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html

This is a self-hosted instance, just a group of friends for the moment.

It was nice to see a notification for once. Well received!