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I would be inclined to think that if you are just renting a machine or VM and all the configuration/maintenance is your problem it would be close enough. But I am not a mod and don't want to be.
The great thing about Lemmy is that if we don't like the moderation policies of an existing community, we can just make a new one with the same name on another instance. With blackjack and VPSs.