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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big part of the concept of a fediverse is the decentralisation. It would be beneficial I think for more people to register on smaller-medium sized instances to help reduce the load on the large few

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or run your own, if you know how

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How much does it cost to run your own instance? Do you have to pay the whole domain, server, security package with a service like cloudflare and all?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Mine is running on a €2.49 Hetzner VM. I already have a domain, so Lemmy is just set up on a subdomain. I secured it myself (that sort of thing is my day job). I don't think I'll need to upgrade, because it's a closed instance with only 2 users.

All told, it would be maybe €50/year if you're starting from nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't researched it at all but I'd be very surprised if you needed anything more than a domain name (basically free as long as you don't go for a common TLD) and somewhere to host it (literally free if you do it on a home PC but that comes with other issues). Cloudflare and extra security are nice but aren't necessary for something like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Porkbun is offering the first year free for a new .dev or .app domain https://porkbun.com/event/freeappdevdomain

$10/year renewal is really cheap too in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn yeah that's dirt cheap!