Use Firebase or create my own backend?

Question

My goal here is to create a social network, with basic things like a profile, a feed page, search and the ability to post text and images and receive comments and reactions. The clients for Android and iOS are not the problem, but I cannot decide if to use Firebase or to design my own backend. I don’t really know about any of them, so I would hace to learn to use the one I choose

Answer 1

Firebase is a large JSON files.
But can also be use for small projects.
I guess to make work easier
You should create a database on your own and host it on a server, then you can create a single package to interact with your database in your code

Answer 2

if you are working on small projects then use firebase.

and for complex project i recommend your own database