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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/557160

I'm using a Raspberry pi 3 and attempting to compile Lemmy. It's been frozen since about 10am eastern time. I'm hoping it'll finish overnight.

Do you have any experience running Lemmy on a pi? I'd love to hear your stories.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven't tried anything like it, but I'd be somewhat interested in hearing how that turns out. Lemmy does a fair bit of DB reads/writes, and I don't think the throughput of the average SD card is up to the task if you subscribe to a lot of things or get a number of users.

But I'm totally open to being wrong.

[–] Soullioness 1 points 2 years ago

Some people are extremely skeptical, while others encourage it strongly. I'm an update this post later with how well it works. I'm not too worried about it, because I'm literally expecting to be the only user. It'll probably run just fine for my purposes, but I'm not expecting to use it as my primary account or anything. Really it's just an experiment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wanted to, and tried, but hit a roadblock and gave up :(

[–] Soullioness 1 points 2 years ago

I'm attempting with Lemmy Easy Deploy now. I tried a couple other methods already and failed. If I fail this time then I'll have to try yet a fourth or possibly fifth way. But I think I'm out of options at that point lol. I'll update this post if I get it started.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve compiled it and am running it on a CM4 with 8GB of memory. Still took quite a while to compile. I think a Pi3 is a bit too anemic for this.

[–] Soullioness 2 points 2 years ago

Some people think it'll work just extremely slowly! Lol we'll see I guess.