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Lemmy on a raspberry pi (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by blotz@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] blotz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are you asking me what i plan to set the cap to? I guess just me. I cant see anyone else wanting to run off a pi from my house and there are so many other instances to join.

[–] Path23@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m a newbie here but what would be the benefit of running an instance just for yourself?

[–] HunterHog@pathfinder.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The ability to host your own data - both for privacy, and insurance that the instance you host your account in won’t suddenly disappear.

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That, and somehow I think it's nice to be able to federate with a username within your own domain when you have one. (or multiple, decisions, decisions, which one to pick ;) )

[–] thegreenguy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I would also add that Lemmy is part of the fediverse, meaning it is federated. Federation means all instances "talk" to all instances (unless they defederate), so you aren't limited only to the content on one instance (or in some cases not even Lemmy, case in point: I'm posting this from my kbin.social account).

[–] adora@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

same!

[–] Adama@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What happens to posts/comments and any media/content that is hosted on a server that just goes away (for example if I created one virtually and then deleted it or if a sdcard on a pi is corrupted)

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

If you upload an image to that server, the image will be gone. Your comments will still exist on other federated instances, assuming that instance was federated in the first place. But any replies to those communities will not propagate once the hosting instance is offline.

For example assume you have 3 instances, A, B, and C. You have an account on A and create a post to a community on A. At some point A goes away, but those posts and that community will still exist on B and C. So you create a new account on B, and reply to one of those posts... users on C won't be able to see those replies as A isn't there to broadcast those replies out. And if someone on C creates a new post on that community from A, you wouldn't be able to see it on B either.

P.S. The same is true if A just decides to defederate instead of shutting down. (other than the images and accounts would still exist obviously).