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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[-] HorseFD@lemmy.buzz 7 points 1 year ago

I’m running a very small instance and I highly recommend using LCS:

https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

Essentially it automatically subscribes to popular communities from other instances on behalf of a user within your instance. That way, when you want to subscribe to a community at some point, it’s quite likely that it will already be full of comments already.

[-] Niami@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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