what is better for single user instance, or maybe something small like under 10 users (no communities)? which is lighter on resources? how much storage should I allocate?

any alternatives to lemmy and kbin that are still somewhat similar?

  • Jamie@jamie.moeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The arguments for are varied. I don’t have to worry about any admins making decisions on federation, I can federate (or not) however I please. I have my own space that I can do what I want with in a familiar format, and I can make my username Jamie without it being taken.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yep, making federation decisions myself is why I want to spin up my own instance at some point, and I have spare computing resources as is already lol

    • TortoiseWrath@tortoisewrath.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      My other reason is that it’s the only way to know I picked an instance that isn’t going to just go away without me and take my account with it. It will be an interesting day when the first major lemmy instance goes down…

    • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      fair points! But that’s a high price to pay in terms of computing resources.

      I wish federation in the “fediverse” sense was as inexpensive as in the XMPP world (or at least seem to be)

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        High price? It’s really not very intensive at all, at low user count. Super light on storage too. I think BeeHaw (one of the biggest instances) said their whole instance was only like 25GB (a week ago)

        • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I meant, comparatively: you can host thousands of active jabber accounts on a RPi at the same time, and that will cost you pennies in electricity a week. I know this isn’t close to an apple-to-apple comparison (different protocols, different capabilities and features, …), but what interests me when people bring-up federated protocols is how much will it actually be used that way in practice (wrt. server dimensioning vs number of users, effort to set-up and administrate, etc), and how effectively we are breaking away from the centralized internet that’s so nefarious. And sorry if this is shifting the thread away from where we started at :)