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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 7 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I've heard instances are using some sort of bot to "discover" communities

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed. !test@mylemmy.win is my community for, well, testing. It has 63 subscribers. One is me, the rest are bots that managed to find the community.

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