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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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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Directly compatible with Lemmy, there's Friendica (Facebook-like; also compatible with Twitter-like posts e.g. from Mastodon), Mbin (simplified/cleaner UI; also hybrid like Friendica), and PieFed (apparently more Reddit-like than Lemmy from what I read, in a technical sense).

Dunno which are better/worse to run, but I remember seeing hardware requirements on the docs of each of them.

Also it's not uncommon to see single user instances from my experience. But if you feel it's a waste of domain/resources, you could also create some dedicated community or something to give further use for it.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also on the images issue pointed by another user, maybe also see if Lemmy now has a solution for it, or if any of the alternatives do.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The solution is to not proxy images. Might even be the default by now. That's a huge resource hog. No idea what pictrs is doing but it's still taking up a whole lotta space just for my own images.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tangencial comment, but as I'd presume your instance is running on a Linux server (usually sites are), maybe check with ncdu (if available) which folders are the biggest?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 5 months ago

The trouble with pictrs is that it sorts pictures into seemingly random folders.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@Auster @erick I run a single / family Friendica instance - covers your Masto & Lemmy needs + more (e.g RSS ) . Uses few resources.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 months ago

RSS's a big for me and had been considering originally using Mastodon + RSS Parrot. But though I don't like the UI of Friendica, its native tracker bot function sounds rather interesting. 👀

Thinking here, the site engine I'd pick for daily use would probably be Mbin. But as I hear it is a bit of a processing hog, running it and a Friendica instance on the same device would maybe be too much for the device, so maybe I should buy another Raspberry Pi or some other SBC for it.