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Hi all!

This is my first post from my self-hosted Lemmy instance!

Thanks all you guys who gave me suggestions and help!

Hope you can see it, BTW :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heyo! I just set up a full suite of fediverse nonsense over at MakrArmy.io! Congrats!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Hear you loud and clear!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Confirmed, can see it from lemmy.today!

Congrats!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I hope it will be seen also from Lemmy.tomorrow! (Pun intended)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Hi amico Ukrainian lemmer! Glad to see you here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Curios about how much space is required for hosting a personal Lemmy instance? Is this something you know, if it's not too much I would be interested in hosting myself!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think my instance has been growing at about 30 GB a year. I think if you set it up to not rehost the pictures, you can keep the whole thing in the handful of GB range.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh thats a lot less than i had imagined actually and very neat that u can turn of re-hosting pictures! Putting this on my to-do list!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Can confirm. I'd host my own, but I'm lazy and The Dude hasn't given me a reason to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmynsfw here, we see you. Do you, errr, see us?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I do! I like your instance very much (i like all instances actually... but some how yours has that little extra spicy, ykwim)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welcome, don't forget to claim and tag yourself on fediseer. Make sure you provide the target instance to guarantee for you when soliciting a guarantee. They will get a PM ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

will do immediately! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Cool! I am just having a coffee myself!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can see you from Blahaj :3

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Glad that works mate! I like you guys and the topics brought along by your instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice work, although for single user instances I would suggest using PieFed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate? Interesting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also started with Lemmy on a small VPS where I run a lot of other services for me and my family. Every update of Lemmy somehow needed more and more resources to run, so many in fact that it would overload my small VPS. I think it is because Lemmy is designed to be run for å huge amount of users, so it has quite a overhead at first just to be able to handle very many users later.

And because I didn't want to upgrade my server and make it more expensive, I decided to try PieFed which has from the start been concentrating on having a small footprint on the server.

And that played off emensly, not only was I able to keep running on a small VPS for cheap, but I also found an amazingly open developer community around PieFed on Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you, might take a look into it as well, but for the time being Lemmy seems to be working fine on my home server (not an underpowered VPS indeed, but not an enterprise-grade server either)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My instance of one now federates with your instance of one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So it's true after all that 1+1=11

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Neat!

Any chance you could share some resources on how you did it? I’d kinda like to give it a try…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I will finish writing that on my wiki today at https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy

edit: page done!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If that would be so simple... Are you a billionaire? In that case, it would make things MUCH easier.... :) Otherwise my wife might want a word....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

congratulations!! greetings from shitjustworks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I simply.love your instance name... I couldn't come with such a good one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

and it's working fantastically, congratulations! I've been considering self-hosting for a while now but I'm afraid of the responsibility :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

For a very small instance, like one or two users, sohuldnt be a burden ask me Ina few months....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Congrats! Works fine from sdf.org as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Cool bro! Cool... Love federation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I couldn't live without your 'Arrs related community!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Visible on lemmy.zip

Well done :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Cool! I got zipped as well!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Congrats! Coming in loud and clear on lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Cool! great!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Just something doing down right on the street, I was surprised nobody took it before me.

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