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Hi all!

This is my first post from my self-hosted Lemmy instance!

Thanks all you guys who gave me suggestions and help!

Hope you can see it, BTW :)

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[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Heyo! I just set up a full suite of fediverse nonsense over at MakrArmy.io! Congrats!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 11 hours ago

Hear you loud and clear!

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Confirmed, can see it from lemmy.today!

Congrats!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 22 hours ago

I hope it will be seen also from Lemmy.tomorrow! (Pun intended)

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I'd host my own, but I'm lazy and The Dude hasn't given me a reason to.

[–] Valeria@feddit.kyiv.ua 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 22 hours ago

Hi amico Ukrainian lemmer! Glad to see you here.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Curios about how much space is required for hosting a personal Lemmy instance? Is this something you know, if it's not too much I would be interested in hosting myself!

[–] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think my instance has been growing at about 30 GB a year. I think if you set it up to not rehost the pictures, you can keep the whole thing in the handful of GB range.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 22 hours ago

Oh thats a lot less than i had imagined actually and very neat that u can turn of re-hosting pictures! Putting this on my to-do list!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welcome, don't forget to claim and tag yourself on fediseer. Make sure you provide the target instance to guarantee for you when soliciting a guarantee. They will get a PM ;)

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 1 day ago

will do immediately! Thanks!

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can see you! Near the top of my lemmy.world feed (I believe, I'm pretty new to all this as well)

Congratulations on getting your instance up!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 10 points 1 day ago

Thanks! Amazing... Cool cool

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 1 day ago

Cool! I am just having a coffee myself!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My instance of one now federates with your instance of one.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So it's true after all that 1+1=11

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can see you from Blahaj :3

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 1 day ago

Glad that works mate! I like you guys and the topics brought along by your instance.

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you're coming in loud and clear from the lemm.ee instance.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 9 points 1 day ago

Beautiful!

Really happy

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’re coming in loud and clear here in the great white North!

How was the process of setting up self hosting?

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Actually much easier than I thought.

Went the docker way and only did a few errors... Took two tries to get everything in order. I am documenting the process here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy but the page is far from complete...

edit: i just finished updating the page, it should contain more or less all the issues and solutions i encountered.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Neat!

Any chance you could share some resources on how you did it? I’d kinda like to give it a try…

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I will finish writing that on my wiki today at https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy

edit: page done!

[–] NudeNewt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 1 day ago

If that would be so simple... Are you a billionaire? In that case, it would make things MUCH easier.... :) Otherwise my wife might want a word....

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Visible on lemmy.zip

Well done :)

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 1 day ago

Cool! I got zipped as well!

[–] pp99@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

congratulations!! greetings from shitjustworks

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 1 day ago

I simply.love your instance name... I couldn't come with such a good one.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] hindy@mbin.lovetux.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey! This is my first post from my self-hosted Mbin instance! :-)

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice work, although for single user instances I would suggest using PieFed.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate? Interesting

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also started with Lemmy on a small VPS where I run a lot of other services for me and my family. Every update of Lemmy somehow needed more and more resources to run, so many in fact that it would overload my small VPS. I think it is because Lemmy is designed to be run for å huge amount of users, so it has quite a overhead at first just to be able to handle very many users later.

And because I didn't want to upgrade my server and make it more expensive, I decided to try PieFed which has from the start been concentrating on having a small footprint on the server.

And that played off emensly, not only was I able to keep running on a small VPS for cheap, but I also found an amazingly open developer community around PieFed on Matrix.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you, might take a look into it as well, but for the time being Lemmy seems to be working fine on my home server (not an underpowered VPS indeed, but not an enterprise-grade server either)

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 1 day ago

I couldn't live without your 'Arrs related community!

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