Idk what the minimum requirements are, but If you have any issue getting your hands a raspberry pi, ZimaBoards seem to be cool
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Kind of a big jump from a pi but I believe Intel NUCs come in single board arm configurations
I find that ebay used desktops and laptops excellent for this kind of thing. You can find used Dell Optiplexes for under 100 USD on auction, if NUCS are too expensive.
Saw in some post, CPU/RAM isn't an issue for a small instance, only store if there's a lot of images posted, but only if posted on that instance.
Maybe database could be an issue, if there's many posts
EDIT: Check this post comments https://lemmy.ml/post/1188427
Lemmy is pretty lightweight. My instance is using (in total), very little CPU and like 1.8 Gb of RAM, most of which is postgres.
For example, here's the last 24 hours of usage for my Lemmy namespace on kubernetes. not much usage at all.