If it works like email, you’ll miss content that is posted when the app isn’t running. I have a cheap hetzner box going that is running my personal lemmy instance but I don’t think it would work well to have it only running part of the time.

Or just list it as volunteer work…

My two rules to live by:

• Assume positive intent. Emotions, body language, etc. get lost when you reduce everything to just text. If it sounds mean or sarcastic but might be curious or genuine, assume it is the latter until proven otherwise.
• never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity being uniformed. Yeah people are malicious sometimes. I still give people the benefit of the doubt.

That, plus when someone is obviously trolling or stirring something up for fun, don’t feed the animals.