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I've done the same, going through fediverse observer and subscribing to all sorts of communities on niche instances and even deploying my own. At this point my main front page feed is very close to what reddit was, but what I don't quite have yet (due to lacking both feature and content) to recreate my interest specific multireddits.
How was the experience of hosting your own instance for the sake of personal convenience? It's something I've been considering along side a few other things that might be worth the effort.
As a Linux and travel enthusiast I think it's fun. Mayne a big ambitious to position my instance as the go-to place for local communities, but I'll give it a few months and see how it goes.
I recommend paperspace over AWS, Azure or Google Cloud just because it's easier to setup and the pricing is more straightforward. I just went with the entry level Linux server, it works fine but I can upgrade later. You can install xfce and connect to VNC over SSH if you want, but I find I do 99% of the server work through SSH on PowerShell.
I've had one downtime issue so far this week but I honestly think it was due to so many other instance also having downtime and the federation workers stalled. I installed netdata so I can easily monitor CPU and RAM usage, which to no surprise, workers be working. I'm also running scripts to post from RSS feeds until things get going on their own.
I run mine over at Linode for the last couple weeks without any downtime. Can't recommend it enough. And it doesn't use a lot of resources so you can host multiple things on one server.