Stupid question. Can you a create a community without hosting a server?

For example, I would love to create a community about home automation in Apple's ecosystem. How would I do that?

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Some instances allow you to make your own community. However beehaw is not one of those instances
- Thanks, that's super helpful to know. I'm seeing that know by browsing other servers.
  
  IMHO, the UI is probably going to need to be a little more affordant. Since Beehaw is a lot of people's first Lemmy instance, some people are going to thing that only admins can create communities. There might need to be some sort of coaching copy in the UI so people know the functionality exists on the platform, but it's disabled here.
  
  I'm not saying having it in multiple places is bad, but it being set to admin only and why is covered in the philosophy posts you get shown when applying.
  
  How would you communicate that in terms of UI?
lemmy.ml and lemmy.world currently allow users to create communities, and lemmy.ml seems to be the most popular as of right now.

You could setup your own instance as well, but then there is no guarantee folks will use your instance and the communities that exist there.

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