until your instance gets banned for being too small once the system reaches critical mass.
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jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 10 months agoI just spun up my own instance and federate with whoever I want.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 10 months ago
Better than than now.
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
i have been on the mastodon side of the fedi since 2018
single user instances do not get defed’d out of nowhere. i’ve never seen that happen. now if you’re an asshole in a single user instance then maybe, but there isn’t anyone going “ooh i’m gonna defederate from this guy” without you provoking them in some way.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When single user interfaces start becoming problematic, they will be. Neither of these platforms have reached a large enough size to need it, but it will eventually be necessary for groups of servers to only federated with themselves to ensure compatibility and scalability. We already have issues with propagating content, systemic and programmaticly.
quicksand@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What kind of specs do you need to run a personal instance? I’d like to, but I don’t really want to invest in a bunch of computer stuff right now
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 months ago
Eh, as long as it can run Linux, >2gb of RAM, and >50GB of storage, even a raspberry pi can host Lemmy.
quicksand@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No way! I’ve got a r pi 4 buried somewhere in my garage. Gonna have to try to set up my own instance. Is there a starter guide for people of limited intelligence? How’d you get yours set up?
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 months ago
Lemmy Easy Deploy has ARM64 support.
After you got lemmy up and running on your raspberry pi, the next hurdle is making it accessible from the internet so other lemmy instances can federate with your instance. There are several way to do that, such as routing getting a static ip address from your ISP and forwarding port 80 and 443 to your pi from your router config, using clodflare tunnel, etc.
Just ask the selfhost community if you hit a roadblock. They love getting more people to join their rank.
myrmidex@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Yunohost had a Lemmy app
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 10 months ago
I got the cheapest VPS from Hetzner which is around 5 EUR.