I showed my 7 year old. She was very amused and still does not believe there are any dolphins.

That’s what xmpp is. It was embraced by Google and Facebook and killed.

I have a home server and a laptop. Both run different versions of Ubuntu

Mine is large enough to be a capybara.

What’s the problem with this?

If they can moderate that many groups to the standard each community is happy with is it an issue?

I use rundeck to do this.

Lemmy is opensource, you can see and get a copy of the source code here. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy There’s no development cost because all developers are volunteers at this stage.

For each instance that depends on the admins running that individual instance. The instance I use is being sponsored by a NZ company that are providing the admin’s a free virtual server to host on.

I use kubuntu for work. At home I have a mix of centos 7 and ubtunu server.