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lemmy needs a 'one click' app template solution for use with portainer or Unraid. Unraid has a huge hobbyist install base that could explode federation and allow quick load balancing for the upcoming influx of users.

But I also don't know enough about lemmy at this point to know whether this may help or hurt the platform.

apparently the picture resizing on upload can be quite CPU heavy

This suggestion probably won't help with hosted VPS, but lib nvJPEG pushes crazy theoretical numbers for image resizing.

Maybe this could be worth investigating?

A "single click" docker stack for unraid would a great option. Lots of DIY NAS systems out there

There is a truly decentralized reddit clone called aether.

Once I wrap my head around how instances work, I'd love to get an instance up and running (or join an existing one)

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