Yes accounts are distributed to each server. Same as communities.

I agree except someone has to host the content and they should get to decide what’s not allowed.

You'll need to be able to ssh into the server.

Hosting a single user instance, I'm seeing a few GB of network traffic over the past few days and maybe 10Gb at most needed for the disk.

Ah, I see. thanks

Ah, great thanks. That sounds much smaller in file size than mirroring all embedded content.

Thanks, I didn't know that.

Turns out docker is configured to reference everything though relative paths. I just needed to move the directory and everything kept working.

wow very tricky, thanks for reporting back! Can I ask if you’re seeing better performance running postgresql separately?

I think that would be possible to do to help with searching for new communities. Although for now I’m not sure there’s too much difference between it existing on each instance vs on https://browse.feddit.de/. Other than ease of use of staying on one website I guess.

Thanks for the feedback! I think if your main goal is to just search for communities by name, then it’s best to use: https://browse.feddit.de/.

I find lemmy.directory the most helpful in browsing all posts across the lemmyverse in a single feed (via the “All” filter).

Searching for new communities may be able to be made more universal, but automatically pulling in those feeds (subscribing) is probably not a good general idea. See here for more info on that: https://lemmy.ml/comment/476925

When first subscribing to a new instance, a handful of posts get backfill synced. I think it would make sense to also backfill the comments for those posts.