Spreading the load over many small instances will likely prevent this. It can be quite cheap to host lemmy well, but everything is expensive when you scale up 1000x
I had the Reddit Sync Pro lifetime thing so I just kind of figured it was because of that, but I straight up haven't seen a single ad. It's not like I have an ad blocker on or anything. How weird!
lemdro.id also runs via horizontal scaling behind a load-balancer, soon to expand globally to keep response times down for people everywhere. We're very resilient :)
lemdro.id is always accepting new users