Self hosted instances

Fediverse@lemmy.world – 54 points – 1 years ago

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

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.

GitHub Link for one of those bots, which mentions in the README that there are similar bots here and here