7.5/10 not Shawshank Redemption, but if you've got time, it won't be a waste IMO. The story covers a lot of ground regarding gender identity and what it means to be perceived as 'good'. Keep in mind that when the source material was written, gay marriage was still illegal in US.
While the Fediverse is built to be decentralized, social networks rely on network effects. People gather where other people are. There will always be 'winners' and 'losers' in building an instance, or even making an alternative 196. c/196 f/196, c/195, fedi196.gay, ect. The original started out with over half a million members, small by Reddit standards. We're the largest alternative around, and we got less than 10k.
Administering an entire instance for one community seems like overkill, especially when there is a path forward to reducing costs significantly.
AWS is really expensive apparently, mostly image and transfer
Text is cheap to serve, but images (and video) are a PAIN. If a significant chunk of expense can be mitigated if I use Imgur or some other service and link my silly memes rather than direct upload then yeah sure, but moving the community around tends to lose people.
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