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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is the 2GB the one you use for your Lemmy server? I'm getting ready to purchase one to see if I can figure it out.

[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Im currently on the 4GB dedicated. However heres an htop of it.

https://imgur.com/a/NpEsw4t

I am currently the only user. Im considering opening it up to limited users but not really having communities once i get a lot of the instances cached and indexable.

Others like @leopardboy@netmonkey.tech are running on a 2GB shared just fine. I will likely move to that if i choose to keep it solo for sure, or under 100 users and no communities.

I dont have the time to really moderate others or content on the instance. So i dont think I plan to host any communities at all. I do wish you could federate/sync specific communities to your instance to make searching/subscribing easier.

[–] leopardboy@netmonkey.tech 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do wish you could federate/sync specific communities to your instance to make searching/subscribing easier.

You mean something that populates your server with a history of posts and comments to communities before your subscribe to them?

[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correct. Connect to for example connect to lemmy.ml and pull their communities so it shows in your communities page locally. Dont have to sync the posts etc. Just the base stats (subs, post, comments. Basically exactly what this is doing. https://lemmyverse.net/communities

note: I hadnt seen that page until after my comment... But im getting a lot of 404's on specific communities, so i have to put in their ! name in search...spam that, click to open the community and subscribe.

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