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You...I like you. Well done.
My reddit account (the first one) was 12 years old. I nuked it and took a 18 months social media sabbatical. It was nice.
I then set up a second account...that got shadow banned (for the MVNO reasons I outlined above).
Thank you for confirming that my "fuck it, I'll make my own Reddit. With blackjack and hookers!" plan (aka making your own Lemmy instance) is actually possible.
Please tell me you're self hosting that on a broken down 2012 laptop, using a $99 GoDaddy domain for the ultimate fuck you asthetic.
How utterly delicious to imagine others spite out-enginering a multi billion dollar company with a box of scraps in a cave, Tony Stank style.
well, no. i wanted to build something scalable and something a little more fashioned like reddit so i ended up using an open source project called mbin.
its runnin ~40$/m for the resources required on a rental outta helsinki.
i like to keep it open to the public as a fediverse onramp.. not a lot of local content, but pulls in quite a bit of shit. i think my compressed database backups are ~7GB. image store is ~500GB/3.25m unique.
after 3 years, some instance stats: