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A few questions about a single user instance (nauvis.niami.net)
submitted 1 year ago by Niami@nauvis.niami.net to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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I first used lemmy on lemmy.world but due to its size I had several issues of things just not loading and needing a full page refresh. So I tried to set up my own instance and it works mostly but the federation aspect is leaving me with a few questions.

Will remote communities only sync new posts from when I subscribed or will past posts show up eventually?

Is having a single user instance realistic or should I try find another small instance?

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[–] Niami@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks great, but would this take up a lot of storage? I'm currently running my instance on an oracle free tier micro instance and the storage is 47GB.

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.buzz 2 points 1 year ago

So far, not really. Only a few gigs so far, but it’s hard to predict how big it could get.

By the way, Oracle free tier has 200GB of storage for ARM64 systems.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ruud, who runs lemmy.world, was asked how much the instance is using, see here: https://lemmy.world/comment/784410

Basically 30G DB and 60G pictrs for the whole instance for 4 weeks of usage.

They have 13k communities and 22k active users per month.