5
Hosting an instance just for yourself?
(kbin.social)
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
You must be able to administrate and pay for a server.
Apart from that, it would not be nice to participate in the network and use the computing capacity of others, but not bring any infrastructure into the network yourself (by registration lock).
It's not really all that difficult to spin up your own "server". Sure, desktop hardware isn't exactly targeted towards running a web server, but for a purpose like your own Lemmy/federation, I'd imagine just about any old hardware from the last 5 years or so oughta be fine.
Not sure what specs are needed for a kbin instance, but pretty much anything running an x64 processor and a reasonable amount of ram should work, even if it's really old.
I think the biggest issue you might have is storage since as far as I understand everything you subscribe to is pushed and saved to your server, at least for a period