Lesley Carhart 
Jerry 🦙💝🦙@hacks4pancakes @da_667 I am good on money. I think we can scale to perhaps 200k users now.
@hacks4pancakes @da_667 I am gong to tell you (and 6m friends) a secret. I’ve been a CISO at $megacorp and my days are spent flattening the folds of my brain in 14 hours of Webexes every day. This has been the most exciting, most fun thing I’ve done it years.
Adam Hall 
🇳🇿 🇺🇸@jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 thank you Jerry, I’ve been investigating standing up an instance for my own little playground and it’s … a lot :)
You’re making nearly 20k peoples lives better!
Jef Kazimer😶🌫️@Adman @jerry @hacks4pancakes @da_667 I am still not clear on the benefit of having a personal instance for a single user. There would be no local feed other than your own toots?
So you would only have your federated feed to see other toots, so may need to follow more people?
@hacks4pancakes @jerry @JefTek @da_667 correct. The only reasons to do it so far as I can tell are to have a vanity handle and/or as a way to learn what it takes to deploy and operate before taking a run at a larger community.
@Adman @hacks4pancakes @jerry @da_667 That makes sense. I saw the "privacy" aspect as you would be your own server admin, but I thought it would be at a loss of any local community.
@JefTek @hacks4pancakes @jerry @da_667 with the way follows work, TBH I’m reading my Home feed for the most part and not the Local. So for some it might be an ok trade off.
Plus you can always have an account on an instance and see that local too!
@Adman @hacks4pancakes @jerry @da_667 that is a good point. I use local feed to discover new people but I suppose as you follow more you would discover people from boosted posts.
So it's just a VM.... Maybe I'll go read the docs