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I’d be happy to update it with more correct information if you can find more accurate numbers.
From https://fedipact.veganism.social/ the largest instances in order of active users are:
- Lemmy.world - Federates
- LemmyNSFW.com - Blocks
- Lemmy-ml - Blocks
- Lemm.ee - Blocks
- programming.dev - Federates.
Domains can be free and several of them works flawlessly with DDNS for home hosting. You can set up a completely free Nextcloud. Self-signed certs and direct IP access works as well.
Somebody else mentioned setting up a VPN to your home LAN, that works fine too.