@Veticia @chopsstephens it’s really frustrating seeing so many people jump in with the snooty “never run large infrastructure, huh?” attitude when that is objectively the opposite of how we should be building instances. The whole point of federation is many small parts of a larger whole so there aren’t huge single points of failure. It’s ok if your instance goes down for a bit, it’ll get caught back up when it comes back online. I think self hosting on used hardware is perfectly fine (it’s what I’m doing), if you do regular backups offsite, because if you’re going to outgrow that hardware you’re probably staring down an issue of maintaining effective moderation anyway. Don’t grow so big that you need big installation methods.