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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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it's that cheap? If I spun up an instance and paid less than $150 how many users would I be able to have before it implodes?
Only one way to find out ;)
On a more serious note... I'm not sure if much has changed since then (probably, things have been moving fast...), but lemmy.world was hosted on about a $150 / mo server:
https://blog.mastodon.world/ https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax (it's the most expensive option here)
That's pretty beefy. You could probably get away with much less for a smaller instance.
But...but...spez said it will cause 200k per month!
That's because he wants all 55 million active users accessing his servers so he shove ads down their throats.
To be fair, Reddit is a lot bigger than any Lemmy instance, and Lemmy instances have the benefit of being decentralised, so the load is on many different servers owned by different people as opposed to one group of servers owned by one company.