mikey, 
So after running a #lemmy instance for a few days, my takeaways are:
✅ extremely easy to setup. Less than 10 mins and I was running.
✅ fairly active community behind it.
❎ Pict-rs is trash and lemmy needs to roll its own "media server".
❎ federation is wonky.
Now it's time to setup #kbin and give it a fair try.