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      Lemmy has barely any resource usage, the server is extremely efficient thanks to Rust. Deployment is also pretty easy with Ansible + Docker.

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        I’m pretty sure the compiled binary is smaller than many (maybe even most) Android apps. Mad props!

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          That’s probably not a completely fair comparison because Android apps include a lot more media. And removing dead code from libraries is kind of complicated, while Rust does that by default.

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            Fair enough. Still, the fact that a complicated web app can fit in a single executable is pretty impressive.

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        I assume bandwidth usage will increase with Federation and also larger requests for data would be more frequent?

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          Theres gonna be some bandwidth usage for images, but unless you have a huge instance, it will be effectively zero. I wouldnt even care about that because you’re not gonna run into any limits with your vps if you get something reasonably cheap.