

No man. It’s great for utility like traveling through a country and being able to ask people things or get something done. But it doesn’t foster real connections nearly as well. People will be far less likely to befriend you if you have to awkwardly talk through a translator all the time.
I can’t imagine it’s much easier than Lemmy. As far as self hosting goes Lemmy is pretty standard. And with PieFed being python it’s bound to be less efficient at the same scale.