Yes this sounds great.
deadline is next monday lol
It only counts users who posted or commented during that time.
This is a great analogy, well explained.
Thats only because gold is undervalued today.
There are already recommended instances at the top, we just need to update them. I will make a post about that tomorrow.
About tree fiddy
That could work but it would have to be coordinated with the admins of those instances.
You can write your own frontend for Lemmy by connecting to the Api and using it to build the HTML. The docs have some more explanation.
There were some suggestions to change the order of instances on join-lemmy.org so that smaller instances are shown near the top. So that could help to spread out users better.
Currently its running on a vps with 8 vcpu for 30 euros per month.