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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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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months 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.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's no reason to run your own instance just for yourself.

[–] eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 1 points 5 months ago

generally it is fine but it is kind of resource intensive

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

Fewer Letters	More Letters
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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