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Heya, I'm trying out Lemmy and kinda like the idea of hosting a Lemmy instance just for me.

I was wondering:

  • What are the hardware/bandwidth requirements for a single user instance?
  • I know different instances can black list each other, but can they whitelist each other too? I don't want to be automatically unable to see interact with certain instances.
  • Has anyone else done this and have thoughts to share?
  • What about doing the same for Mastodon?
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Rather than setting up a VPS like some of you is there a reason I couldn't run this on my existing home unraid server?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes im doing something similar but you should probably mask your home IP in some way using something like Cloudflare tunnels. Keep in mind the whole idea behind federation is you are advertising yourself to the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, you can run it on your own homelab just fine. If you don't have it already, you just need a (usually free) dynamic subdomain so your instance have a normal URL instead of IP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, but you'll need to do all the extra stuff required to get a domain name working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can run it on Unraid using docker compose fine.