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?

  • Niami@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    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.buzzEnglish
      3·
      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.

    • maegul (he/they)English
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ruud, who runs lemmy.world, was asked how much the instance is using, see here: https://lemmy.world/comment/784410

      Basically 30G DB and 60G pictrs for the whole instance for 4 weeks of usage.

      They have 13k communities and 22k active users per month.