Not sure I’d say “careful”… more of “don’t get too comfortable”. As the dust clears I’d expect some/many of the new instances to shutdown. Likely due to hitting server resource limits, or admin motivation limits :)

A couple of hours maybe. I’m pretty familiar with the tech, if you aren’t it will take longer.

Worth noting, the current docker-compose referenced on the Lemmy site is non-functional. I couldn’t be bothered fixing the supplied nginx setup, so just ran with the ansible playbook instead.

If you introduce people to Lemmy, direct them to smaller instances to sign up on.

I spun up a lemmy instance for my friends and I. Great success so far :)