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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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[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Hi, single user lemmy instance here. I'd say it's been smooth sailing for now. I might consider moving to piefed like other folks here, but I'll keep it and see. Right now i can't even upgrade due to arm64 docker images are broken at the moment, but it's sufficient enough.

EDIT: Seems like it's fixed, yippee :D https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6201#issuecomment-3693373333 kudos to mattlqx :)

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How much storage is it using?

[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

~3GB according to postgres, ~545MB for the pictures. Not too bad actually.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

That's pretty good!

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So, what is/are the advantage(s) of running a single user Lemmy instance? Privacy? Security? Anonymity? Curious since it seems there are people who do.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Immunity to defederation drama

[–] kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud 4 points 2 days ago

Honestly, privacy and security. I can purposefully disable registration, I have my own data purposefully and anonymity, plus eliminating trusting a third-party server admins, etc.