Hi everyone, I’m having trouble finding a Lemmy instance that works well for me. The main instance I use is down, and most others are too slow. I’m wondering if there’s a way to choose an instance based on latency and the least blocked users. I found two relevant issues on the awesome-lemmy-instances GitHub page: issue #12 about choosing an instance based on latency and issue #17 about choosing an instance with the least blocked users. However, I’m not sure how to implement these into the main script to generate a readme with a few recommended instances. Does anyone have any advice or tips on how to choose a Lemmy instance based on these criteria? Thanks in advance for your help!
What kind of storage requirements are there?
It feels like you’d eat up a lot of storage, fast. Especially if you subscribe to anything video/photo-related.
With Mastodon yes because it caches everything on your server, but with Lemmy no, because it hot-links media from the other server without caching it.
jeena@Abraham:~/lemmy/volumes$ du -sh * 8.0K lemmy-ui 5.2G pictrs 2.8G postgresI’m subscribed to around 50 communities for about 2 months.
Huh. That’s surprisingly light.
I self-host my own Mastodon server and relay about 50 hashtags (no full servers). Even with media getting flushed every 3 days, it still hovers around 20GB.
I’m probably gonna do it now, because of course I will.