It also generates waste water that has to be sent to a treatment plant they can’t dump it back into the environment because it’s so concentrated with minerals

Same just running in docker have DNS and few other services running side by side on a pi4

It’s been reasonably active here definitely not reddit in it’s prime, I haven’t found it worthwhile to self host lemmy but others may chime in that do. I’ve got a few other things I’m hosting on my Dell r720xd matrix, jellyfin, wireguard, next cloud, gonic and other minor things.