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Is there a tutorial or something out there? I've got no background in any of this but would like to maybe give it a go myself at some point. Would you be willing to say how much it costs as well?
Depends, what do you mean with "no background in any of this"? I started yesterday and set up the instance within 3h, starting around 1h after I saw the name "Lemmy" the first time. I still have to iron out some issues.
But I do have a strong background with docker, Linux administration, networking, and generally DevOps, and I do have a virtual root server up and running for some time.
If you have no background in docker and Linux (administration), I would say you'd do better focusing on smaller things, running some servers locally in docker and so on. There should be lots of opportunities to have a quick success to build up on.
If you have that background already and only have no background in the topics of Fediverse and Lemmy, https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html provides some relatively easy to follow instructions.
The costs are basically the costs of an always on Linux server, preferably with a fixed IP address. I'm not sure what you would pay wherever you live, I pay ~15€/month for 8GB, 4 cores, virtual root server with my own domain name.
By no background I mean nothing in any of that at all 😂. The only mildly relevant thing I have a background in is bioinformatics but even that's a stretch...
However, I did also have 0 background in 3D modelling, 3D printing or handwiring keyboards and now I've made quite a few that all work so... We'll see! (I guess lol)
Well, just for playing around you should be able to set it up using something like dyndns on a laptop at home, at no cost (except for time). If you want to go for it, that's what I would suggest :-) When that works, think about getting the virtual-root-server at monthly costs...