People came to Lemmy explicitily because Reddit bans you for disliking billionaires now.

It’s not that I like them or anything, but it’s very irrelevant to my motivations to use fediverse.

A bit offtopic, but why would anyone want to keep their instance in line with local laws? Aren’t internet sites operating under jurisdiction of where they are hosted? Or is it just some coincidence that those people decided to host their stuff at datacenters at their local proximity? When I’m choosing hosting the first thing I think about: “hmmm I shouldn’t host in country where I live because I don’t want to ever have any problem with local authorities, and if I host elsewhere authorities there won’t be able to reach me physically so the worst thing that could happen is the site gets shut down”.

Should be “starting your own instance”, because otherwise you still have to conform to the rules of the instance you create your community/sub on.