I'm still surprised you use that LW account while there are so many other Lemmy instances to choose from

Lol, idk to me Lemmy is Lemmy, just with a bit of difference in the feeds depending on what instance you're on is federated with

.world is already fairly federated, too much IMO since they still haven't defederated from .ml but I digress. So I don't feel like I'm missing out on all that much.

Every time I see a hex or grad post it's always just a shit show, I just peeked over there on another account earlier and saw they were...cheering... .ee's closure soo meh

LW being too prevalent is still an issue. We see lemm.ee impact today, imagine if LW were to shutdown tomorrow.

The more people see other instances in poster's name, the more it makes them aware of other instances.

You tend to post a lot, that would be cool for you to use another instance

You can't use like a back blaze bucket like mastodon to store all the junk?

You can, but what would that solve?

I'm not exactly sure, I just remember reading it was recommended to not fill up tons of space on your server when I was setting up mastodon, I think my server was at like 300gb last I checked.

I planned to go back and try to set it up to see what the rates were

Sometimes home just feels like home! Having the ability to migrate a user entity independent of instance might encourage more of it though. Would be nice for comms too - eg. If somewhere like lemm.ee goes down the popular comms could be migrated to other instances and maintain continuity seamlessly to users (if such a thing were possible within activity pub). Kind of like a "forwarding address" that gets disseminated to all federated instances.

Know a good guide on setting up your own instance?

A big thank you to all the Lemmy instance admins. We only really notice them when things go wrong. And every time something goes wrong, that means all the other admins had to perform superhuman feats so that sort of problem didn't happen to them.