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Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill (lemmy.erick.sh)
submitted 2 days 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 2 days ago (3 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

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[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 4 points 2 days ago

i am considering spinning up a piefed boi, which at the most, would end up with maybe 5 users.

we'll see!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

I did it for a while but I had loads of annoying lags in updates, guess you had to roam around to get things going, maybe it's all okay now, IDK. If it's just for surfing I don't see any reason to do it, otherwise it was a fun experiment.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I've thought of doing it for privacy and other reasons. I don't have the sense that the resource load is high, but I haven't checked carefully.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

I have tried snac before as a minimalist fediverse server but the blog style layout isn’t really for me.

I have also considered wether a personal Lemmy is a good idea or not.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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HASS Home Assistant automation software
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS HTTP over SSL
LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
k8s Kubernetes container management package
nginx Popular HTTP server

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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