Does anyone run their own Lemmy instance on a pi? How was the process of setting it up? Were there any pitfalls? How is performance?

  • GustavoM@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not yet, but I’m planning to. And I don’t think there will be any “pitfalls” at all other than your microsd dying in a couple of months rather than years due to it getting hammered constantly by API requests, etc.

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      1 year ago

      You could plug in a USB SSD or HDD and make sure the DB and other regularly written data goes there. That would pretty much remove the problem.

      I would wonder how well it would perform. The limited memory and cpu power surely would make database access not great under even moderate load.

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        1 year ago

        You are right – I completely forgot about those, thanks.

        I would wonder how well it would perform.

        Something between “usable” to “a complete nightmare” – depending of how popular the lemmy instance is. Which would scare new users away, leaving it as a “cool kids only” thing. Then again, theres the fact that the power draw is little to none, which is very important regarding most self-hosting stuff – “can’t use it if I can’t maintain it”.