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5 days agoi spent 15+ years on reddit but when they started to sell out to wall street it was pretty obvious where it was going… but im addicted to doomscrolling so i built an instance to replace my own reddit addiction. the fediverse has filled the gap nicely.
just before it took a hard right turn and replaced half the users with bots
well, no. i wanted to build something scalable and something a little more fashioned like reddit so i ended up using an open source project called mbin.
its runnin ~40$/m for the resources required on a rental outta helsinki.
i like to keep it open to the public as a fediverse onramp… not a lot of local content, but pulls in quite a bit of shit. i think my compressed database backups are ~7GB. image store is ~500GB/3.25m unique.
after 3 years, some instance stats: