Thank you for your work for the community! I think with more people using lemmy, we should also as users lookout for the infra we are using because the admins are not a mega corporation ready to spin up infinite resources.

That sounds good for reliability since an instance can still lookup posts even if another fails.

For videos and images, do they store them as blobs in the database or do they use something more catered to files like object storage or maybe a regular filesystem with metadata on a database?

That's an awesome name. The Rust community never fails to deliver lol