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Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill (lemmy.erick.sh)

submitted 5 months ago by erick@lemmy.erick.sh to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I am fairly new to Lemmy and was thinking of getting an account on one of the "big" servers to get the full experience, but then I figured I could do exactly the same thing as with my GoToSocial and other services: run my own instance.

I am wondering if this is an overkill or not. Any experience running your own small Lemmy instance? Are there better options that are compatible with Lemmy but lighter to run for this purpose?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I run a single user instance and it's horribly slow. Mostly because I only have HDDs and not enough RAM to compensate. I hope Lemmy 1.0 will increase database performance.

Piefed is supposedly much more performant. But I'm shying away from migrating because I don't want to lose my post history and uploaded pictures.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe there's a way to import contents through federation? Just, if both run on the same hardware when doing it (possibly the new instance on a subdomain), both would run way slower.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 5 months ago

Canceling all subscriptions would probably make Lemmy use almost no resources.