Aside from the technical details of running a fediverse instance, I think you should also be aware of the legal implications. For example, in your region, what is your obligation to actively moderate and delete illegal content (for example CP added by a troll or bot). Can you get in trouble even if you didn’t see it was there, but it’s on your server? How quickly do you need to react and how thoroughly must it be deleted?

If it was me, I’d also make sure I understand how this intersects with federation, and whether or not this could copy illegal content from other instances into my instance’s database.

Of course we’re all communists here, and you may have your own opinion and risks what you feel comfortable hosting, but it’s worth thinking through.

Russian, using an 18 unit video course. It’s going ok to start, but I think I need to begin to supplement it with in-person classes to get the conversational practice going.

I don’t have specific literature to recommend but you might be able to find literature in a similar vein which discusses this last paragraph of Ch. 2 of the Communist Manifesto:

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

I take this section to mean that the material interests of individuals is no longer in contradiction with, in fact completely bound up with the material interests of society at large. So the things which benefit society also directly benefit the individual. This is in comparison to capitalism where things which increase profit for capital are directly at odds with individual development.

I pretty much tried to switch for no other reason than the UN name change. They use this spelling in English even on the official tourism website GoTürkiye

It’s the same concept as running a mastodon server but turning off registration. No more or less secure.

Epic bacon quoting the Jorjor Wells book! You win the internet for today.