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Is it fairly cheap to host your own personal, single-user Lemmy instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Moc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's say I decided that instead of blogging, I wanted to host my own Lemmy instance that contained a maximum of one (1) user– me, but allowing other users to subscribe.

To show what I'm talking about, look at how kaidomac uses Reddit as his own personal microblog, which people subscribe to.

What is the cheapest way to do this?

My mental model of Lemmy is that if I were to do this, the instance would still be caching information from other instances. This would– at least in my mine– add up in costs.

I'm a software engineer, so feel free to use technical jargon.

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Does ActivityPub have support for blogging?

From what I researched some time ago: There are/were some federated blogging systems out there but they’re all stuck in the pre-Docker era installation-wise and technology-wise (i.e. just outdated).

But in the end it makes no sense in my opinion. Blogs nowadays are just publishing and less networking/interaction.

A simple file loader and markdown parser could be enough. I set up my page based on Apache directory listing, a custom Action to parse markdown files, and some fancy CSS. There is figuratively nothing that runs my page, except a web server and a markdown parser.