I agree here. I looked into setting up a public instance. Realized quickly if it gained tracking a single box is not going to work and you are immediately in a

I agree here. I looked into setting up a public instance. Realized quickly if it gained tracking a single box is not going to work and you are immediately in a scale out setup of postgres at least. Once you get to 3 postgres nodes, 2 LB's for the DB traffic, then Front ends with Load balancing, you are looking at 9 servers-ish minimum.... That monthly cost even in Linode is a bit more than I would be willing to front with no compensation. That said, i may just setup an instance of kbin I can control and rely heavily on the federated portion to interface with the various communities. If my understanding is correct, I can access other lemmy instances even with kbin, such as beehaw etc.