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It was meh the first ~week that I've mostly been using it anonymously via Jerboa. There just wasn't all that much stuff to read. But once I've spun up my own instance and federated with a few dozen communities - man, it's looking amazing! It's still so much better in a browser to manage everything, but simply lurking is now perfectly viable via the Android app.
Forgot to mention - it's open registration, so feel free to jump on it if you feel like skipping the self hosting part and want to avoid the big instances struggling with things at the moment.
how much disk space do you need for self-host?
Hard to say - a fresh install of OS + lemmy had used up ~4.3G yesterday, today it's at ~5.4G. A lot of this growth is me adding a bunch of communities to federate with. I suspect most of it is some sort of cached flow of data that will get discarded over time and some other bit is just the database. Time will tell what usage it's going to settle on, but I expect it to be reasonable, unless people start uploading media onto my instance :D
understood, thank you!