A rice cooker making rice in a saucepan will yield different results almost every time, a $20-50 rice cooker is just a set it and forget it kitchen tool that yields the same results every time. Very nice and easy
The price might also go down as his userbase increases. The amount of people using the fediverse doesn't yet compete with the previous reddit numbers so in order to live off it he needs more per transaction.
Second this. It requires a domain though like other request services, since it's a website. The real nice thing is that it integrates with services like radar and sonarr so if you approve the request you don't have to manually go find the new item.
It's my understanding that the way mastodon works is that initially only toots on your instance can be seen by people on the instance. Of you want other content, a user would need to search for and follow users on other instances, then those other users' toots can show up on people's feeds in your instance. That's why bigger instances have more content for new users out of the box.
I could be wrong as I haven't made my own instance and I haven't seen the source code, but this is how it was explained to me.
I can't remember exactly but isn't the meme from a picture of a picture?
Edit: like it was someone's school picture from when they were young and they threw it up on pics or something.