I set some rate limiting on it when people were flooding the site with searches. We now solved that in a better way, so now I can lower the limiting for searches again. Please try again.
(I had temporarily set it to 1 search per 60 seconds... )
That would be true if Threads would support communities. Which they don't. If they ever would (which I don't think) then this would be a valid point and need consideration.
The Lemmy server is about 180 EUR/mo and the e-mail cost was around 70 EUR for Lemmy, because of the many new signups which require a few mails per user.
That would be a lot of work and extra bookkeeping.. The costs like Hetzner and Wasabi and Mailgun are all in 1 account, same invoice. But we might make the branding on the Patreon/OpenCollective pages a bit more clear.
Backup / restore gets complicated if you have multiple apps in 1 dB