There is already a couple like this. lemmy.dbzer0.com for example is a piracy themed instance, and all communities hosted on it are piracy-related.
Sanras
1337x.to has a great totk upload in xci format if you need one. Torrentleech if you have an account there is also fine.
I feel like lately I’ve been doing more piracy than actually using the content I’ve been pirating
I think a lot of people are like this. I of course do also enjoy using the content I pirate, but the process of setting stuff up (like console hacking for example) is also a lot of fun.
You don't need to sign up for different instances. You only need one user on one instance, and you can browse, subcscribe, and comment on posts from other instances from your own home instance.
If that's the load average now on a 6c/12t system with 32GB, just how bad was the previous server?!?
Was this website running on a Raspberry Pi or something?
Spoiler: They couldn't. No one running the mobile browser on purpose is gonna use their app.
Before the upgrade, I hope.