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What does it cost to host a lemmy? Is that something you could self host?
Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough, sans the image store. But it's not a hard requirement unless you expect to have lots of local communities posting pictures.
Lemmy's issue is that it's non-trivial to deploy and oftentimes painful to upgrade.
Doesn't lemmy sync posts, comments, and pictures with other instances? I remember after a CP attack some instances manually turned it off in the code to avoid troubles, and also had to clear their storage.
It absolutely does. Think of lemmy like of email – your mail server has all the email you received.