And that only effects outbound federation basically? So a small instance shouldn’t have much issues with this, even if it’s subscribed to a lot of very busy communities?

and they’re not exchanging data, in the sense that if there’s community jimbo on instance rambo, all comments are stored there.

No. The comments are saved by every instance that has at least one user subscribed to [email protected]. If Rambo.com goes down, you wouldn’t be able to make new content but I’m pretty sure everyone else could view what was there.

if there’s multiple jimbos on different instances is there some aggregation type of deal or do I have to subscribe to all the jimbos out there? and if I have something important to say about topic jimbo, I just spam/crosspost my idea to all the jimbos out there?

On Reddit there was /r/tech and /r/technology. One of those became the big, go-to sub.

Same will happen here, just give it a bit of time.

You’ve marked your post NSFW for some reason

Ah I’m really not worried about my “local” instance. I just go to the “all” and "subscribed tabs. Honestly it makes it a lot less confusing and much more cohesive for the end user if they can pretty much ignore the instance and think “oh it’s Reddit but usernames and subreddits look like emails”

Yep, that’s my thoughts. I’m gonna cap my instance at a low number. (Gonna start at 100 and see what usage is like) It’s not much but it’s what I can do without worrying about crazy hosting costs.

Hmm, was able to view it on mine after putting the URL (https://kbin.social/m/linux) into my instance’s search bar. But it doesn’t seem to show any posts. Normally upon discovering a community lemmy should bring in the top 20 posts.

https://lemmy.rogers-net.com/c/[email protected]