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Self hosting my own Lemmy instance was so much fun (lemmy.org.il)
submitted 1 year ago by maor@lemmy.org.il to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Y'all should try it! I loved seeing it popping on other instances' /instances page, and seeing it polling other communities. Also changing the background in my theme was lit.

Lemmy's hosting documentation is a bit rough around the edges, especially the ARM situation (and its contemporary solution), so I had some extra tinkering to do. No shade at all yeah? I appreciate every bit of their work and I jotted down some points that I need to consolidate into a documentation PR soon.

Anyway, I feel like the extra @... on our usernames should be worn as a badge of honor you feel me? ;)

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[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are the storage implications of setting up your own instance? Are you syncing the contents of every sub or just the ones you and your friends subscribe to? I like the idea of doing it but will it be TB’s of content in a few months?

[–] Dave 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just the ones people subscribe to.

I have an instance with over 600 users that has been up 6 weeks, and the storage grows every day. Database is 22GB and image cache + uploads is 30GB. In theory the cache should be cleared after a certain time, but I'm not aware of a configuration setting for this in Lemmy.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the database a fix is incoming for the next release that will decrease the size a lot. For image storage it is more complicated, but configuring Pict-rs to only accept images of a certain size and convert them to webp does help a bit.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

got a howto for pictrs bits?

[–] maor@lemmy.org.il 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You nailed it, it only pulls posts from communities that someone on your instance subbed to. It doesn't even pull retroactively; your instance only starts pulling posts created after the first subscriber on the instance subbed.

I'm more concerned regarding media, because just like Mastodon, the pics themselves are copied from other instances onto yours. I hope it will be enough to just find -mtime -delete once in a while