To be honest, no. I run in a Truenas Jail, and its stable for me. Just a bit slow for big files sometimes.
I host it in a Truenas BSD Jail, and the process was as straightforward as compiling and running any other Rust / Postgres project. Which error did you get?
I think the point is too many users following threads users as is it more likely to find a friend there than on Fediverse for example. Which will require more compute resources and storage
Think that in the background Lemmy and Mastodon uses the same protocol, which means that you can consume content from one to another.
What changes is the ui, where Lemmy organizes the content in a reddit-like experience and Mastodon is closer to Twitter
I like Thunder