Nice, congratulations for completing a personal project. One day I also hope to complete a personal project.

What reference material did you use to build it? As in like the activitypub specification

this happening is the usa is as surprising as a sunrise

just stop using twitter

Depends what you do! Each have price calculators you can use to estimate cost. It’s usually all pay as you go, and hourly. You can always shut VMs down when not used to reduce payment.

At least with Azure they also have very small VMs on a free tier which wouldn’t use any credits up

Azure, AWS and GCP all provide free credits along with free VMs for periods of time

Edit - client/server VMs on a single machine, yes absolutely possible.

You can think of instance and server as the same thing. An instance of lemmy runs on a server.

You don’t have to run an instance to create a community (sub), but I believe some instances limit who can create communities.

If you run your own instance, you could do whatever you please with it. When you create a community on it, other federated instances can browse to it via community@instance.domain

Here are the instructions for hosting your own instance

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html

Why do you want to be listed, to create an actual public instance? Or did you create it for just your own use?

~~Is Threads federating? I thought it was just standalone. ~~

Searching around for “Threads Federation” or “Threads Fediverse” yielded nothing

Got it - ActivityPub was the term to use

Notably, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a post that there will be no ActivityPub support at launch. ActivityPub is — a protocol that is used to post on decentralized networks like Mastodon. But the platform plans to allow interactions with other fediverse servers in the future.

source - techcrunch