As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?
Would it make any sense to stand up my own instance, federated with what I want, follow the communities I want from other instances, and just ignore the rest? Is there any reason to not do that?
If you’re happy to pay whatever it costs to host then there’s no other disadvantage to this.
The only thing I can think of is if you somehow end up at odds with an admin of a big instance and they defederate your instance. Or perhaps in the future major instances decide to only federate with instances of a certain size, for some as of now unpredictable reason
Could even run the instance from your phone or whatever device used to look at Lemmy
Has anyone done that and documented it? I know android phones are sort of linux, but still, does need some modifications.
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Yeah no, it’s not that simple lol
That’s what I do as of a couple days ago, it’s working pretty ok so far.
What does it realistically take to host that? Would one of them smaller Digitalocean droplets be enough, for example?
I run an instance on a 2 core 4gb vps, I think the disk space will be the thing that I’ll run out of
30 reg’d accounts and about 10 active users
How fast is your storage filling up with 10 active users?
about 8GB over the last 4 weeks