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Self hosting a Lemmy instance for just myself? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Heya, I'm trying out Lemmy and kinda like the idea of hosting a Lemmy instance just for me.

I was wondering:

What are the hardware/bandwidth requirements for a single user instance?
I know different instances can black list each other, but can they whitelist each other too? I don't want to be automatically unable to see interact with certain instances.
Has anyone else done this and have thoughts to share?
What about doing the same for Mastodon?

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

I took the easy way out for Mastodon with a managed host because I wanted to open it up to toher folks. But I did self host it for a bit and it was fine. Pleroma was a bit more to my liking, but Mastodon won out.

A couple of weeks ago, I did set up my Lemmy instance on a single core, 1GB RAM, 10GB HDD VPS. I'm not subscribed to a ton of communities and haven't bothered with the different seeding scripts. So far so good though! I'm really happy with it.