But with the way the Reddit admins are handling the website, you wouldn't have had that sub for much longer anyway. That's the whole point of the blackout in the first place. Don't blame the protesters. Blame the admins. They're the ones with the power to change things.
Drastically smaller chance of things getting taken down here to boot. You'd practically have to get the host of your server up in arms, which is a lot harder to do than a grumpy Reddit admin pressing the ban button.
It's probably at the same level of difficulty to set up your own seedbox (i.e. in a VPS or even your own hardware) as it is to set up your own actual Lemmy instance.
Merelly figuring out the fediverse is way less complicated than either of those.
4 ARM64 cores, 24GB of RAM and 200GB of storage, and some other resources and older x86, for the low low price of free. 10TB outgoing limit, no incoming limit as far as I know. You can setup one or many VPS using the resources.
I have a a full media stack running on one - Plex, Tautulli, Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, Qbittorrent, Jackett among other services like Portainer, YTDL, Traefik. I've seen 8+ streams with 4 or 5 720p transcodes, the CPU is pegged but it keeps up.
For storage I use a combo of services. Rclone, mounting a remote google drive to /mnt/remote. Cloudplow, takes stuff from /mnt/local folder and directly uploads to the remote drive via gdrive API using the same rclone config. And mergerfs, takes the /mnt/remote and /mnt/local folders and combines them into a /mnt/merged folder. The /mnt/merged folder is the main fodler for media, downlaods, etc. Any writes are first stored in /mnt/local.
I describe that setup to demonstrate the capacity of a free service, of course much less complex for a seedbox.
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