i’ve got an RPi4 not doing much legwork atm. is there an easy way to install and host lemmy on it? if not, maybe a mastodon instance?

  • M500
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    3 years ago

    I have not looked into this, but I am interested in the answer.

    I think the main answer you are going to get is that it depends on the number of users on your instance.

    If you are not doing anything with your pi at the moment I recommend checking out nextcloud pi, pivpn, and pihole.

    But, maybe you are already running these systems.

    • sibachianOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I don’t expect a lot of users. It would mainly be a community focused specifically on aquarium fish.

    • sibachianOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      I never heard of epicyon. It looks a bit… odd. So it’s a platform that tries to do-it-all, but within a limited scope? The UI really needs an update though.

    • sibachianOP
      3·
      3 years ago

      That’s awesome news. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than ~50 concurrent users online on lemmy.ml, so 20 should be more than enough.

    • airikr
      2·
      3 years ago

      I tried to install Lemmy with Docker on my RPi 4 few days ago. I couldn’t complete the installation because it doesn’t support ARMv7. So Lemmy works on RPi 4 is just a big lie 😔 Or is there any solution to this?

    • sibachianOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html

      Oh! it’s right there in the documentation “Supports arm64 / Raspberry Pi.”.

      Now I just need to figure out how to install docker (for the third time) :D

      I haven’t looked at Pleroma too closely. It just seemed near identical to Mastodon but with a less appealing interface. If it runs well on a Pi4 together with Lemmy, then it makes a lot more sense. Maybe I could also run a writefreely instance?

      My main concern was dealing with compiling etc, since I don’t know the technical aspects too much. A lot of stuff I’ve tried to setup on my pi with installation guides tends to fail half way through. Which is why it doesn’t get a lot of use.