I am considering creating my own lemmy instance as my current instance (lemmy.world) is often down, and I enjoy this kind of a project. That being said I haven’t been able to find any resources on hw needed for this? If I have a raspberry pi 4b 8g with 128gb is that enough for just me using it? Do I need to pay for a cloud server to host it? How can federation work if I only have <10 users tops? Anything else I might need to know?

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[–] matthew@lemmy.woodward.tech 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Hello! I did the same thing, and this is my first post on my instance!

I just put it on an old computer with 8GB of RAM, a HDD, and an old i5. Its running great so far.

One disapointment for me is viewing "all". Since im the only one on my instance, the only communities I see are the ones im subscribed to. Let me know if you find a way around this please!

[–] adminjrs@lemmy.fan 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used this bot to populate lemmy.fan - it works well, runs within a container/portainer stack, and the logs show everything when it runs.

[–] matthew@lemmy.woodward.tech 3 points 1 year ago

This is awesome! Can't wait to give it a try, thank you!

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