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I think if you want to bring value, start contributing in the tech support communities also. Lots of technical questions, specially about email and hosting Lemmy in ways that are more complicated than having it's own host.
Your skills would be very valuable there. :)
Lemmy is very lightweight due to being written in Rust. I think you won't have as much problems with the CPU as with the networking and bandwidth. It's hard to host a reliable site from your home, usually requiring dynamic DNS, port forwarding, and very strong firewalling. The bandwidth usage is probably minimal if you decide to host images on separate servers like imgur, but still could be significant.
The problem with scale is going to be the database rather than the language / framework it's written in.
If you want to use it just for yourself (thus removing the load of your own usage from the other public instances), sure.
If you intend to open it up for many users, you need to consider whether you're capable of managing that kind of load. Lemmy is relatively lightweight though.
On my post here, you can find some informations about other people running an instance in the comments.
Wouldn't the federation syncing process use much more resources across the network than 1 user browsing sometimes?