Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community?

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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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How is your RAM/storage usage? I'm interested in setting up my own instance (no communities, just a username that will always be here) but don't want to upgrade my VPS again. I already had to do that spinning up a Mastodon server.

I’m up to about 300MB of disk usage after a day of hosting my own. Curious to see how it grows.

haha better than the 12GB and rising of my single-user Mastodon instance. And this is with deleting my media cache every night.

Up to 400MB after two days here. I took a look at the code and it looks like Lemmy keeps all ActivityPub JSON for 6 months. It would be nice if it was possible to shorten that.

I'm still happy that I'm hosting my own instance, but I hope this thing doesn't get too big!

The pictures folder on my instance is at 1.3GB after two days. It's just me and my friend. About how many communities are you subscribed to?

  1. Some of those are lemmy.ml and not a lot of comments, etc have synced yet.

My raspberry pi 4 is using 810mb of RAM and 11gb of file system space.

That's interesting to read. Could an instance be added to an existing setup? (Debian OS)

So long as you can run Docker, I would think that you could setup an instance. You just need to make sure that the image you use for lemmy and lemmy-ui are compatible with your platform. I had to alter the provided docker-compose.yml file to use arm64 versions for my RaspberryPi.

I mentioned the total disk usage for the sake of setting up a pi. I don't know what the space requirements are for lemmy separate from the bulkiness of an Ubuntu 22.04 install.