It's gradually improving but its 100% not ready for full production outside of enthusiasts who are willing and patient enough to take the time and effort to wrangle with its quirks. If you want to self host (especially as a single user) and aren't prepared to make vigorous backups and aren't extremely technical inclined/are a regular average user it's *really *not worth it right now. It likely will be in time, but there's a lot of issues with lemmy that need to be addressed. Thankfully the coming update will address some of its most serious though. It helps to be involved in the admin matrix community chats and generally accepting community assistance, but it's just far too much to keep on top of for most people. If I didn't have a community and mine was a single user instance, I 100% would have shut it down weeks ago and migrated over to a larger instance.