I have been so very clear on this being about .ml and the admins in charge of it that it’s obvious you’re just posting a straw man.

Your intentions can be whatever. You are actively harming Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole.

Because they use the .ml instance and it’s influence as being associated as the “Official Dev Instance”

Really because every turn I see it seems like they push people away from joining .ml…

fair and unbiased as possible

What does this even mean?

We get it, you hate Lemmy as a platform. You try so hard to make it less appealing by splitting discussions on posts by reposting stuff needlessly. Really makes Lemmy look even more unoriginal and boring seeing the same posts 3 times in different places all the time. Then you spearhead some movement to try to get people to not donate to Lemmy development at all, making it harder for these people who are trying to make Lemmy their life’s work to be able to even survive. It’s actually gross.

First question is - are you familiar with Linux command line at all? If not get familiar with it first.

Second you’ll need to own or buy a domain and point it to the server’s IP.

Then install either Ubuntu Server or Debian on the server, setup SSH and run this Ansible project - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

If that’s not comprehensible to you, I’d really recommend getting more familiar with Linux command line and servers before I’d recommend starting a Lemmy instance.