seriously, distributing the load helps a LOT. Though if you can’t spin up your own instance one thing you can do is try and host pictures externally, in !youshouldknow!youshouldknow@lemmy.world a post mentioned how to do it for images in comments since by default it has you upload if you don’t manually put in ![image](link)

From what I understand as long as it’s a Federated activitypub based instance like Mastodon, kbin, and Lemmy they can communicate between each other but the platforms can have issues presenting the data from other ones in a way that makes sense.

Yea I figured out about the subscribing thing (also hi from my working self hosted instance!), wish someone made a way to have a bot subscribe to communities en masse to populate the instance. Maybe I can learn to code and make it myself 😂

Tbh I have no idea how to use git other than clone 😂, I ended just resetting the VPS and trying UberDuck77’s script and that did the trick. Maybe now I should learn to code so I can make a bot account to mass subscribe to communities to populate my instance

I haven’t really used kbin but I’m wondering if that could bridge the gap since it has features from both.