This. If you need anything more complex than that, there’s nothing wrong with creating an organization.

Typora also supports it, it’s a great low-overhead tool overall.

I run my own Mastodon instance, but for Lemmy it seemed more logical to join an existing instance that aligned with my interests. I wouldn’t be adverse to abandoning my self-hosted Mastodon for a shared instance, but I would prefer a small instance run by and for people I know, rather than one of the huge ones.