I first used lemmy on lemmy.world but due to its size I had several issues of things just not loading and needing a full page refresh. So I tried to set up my own instance and it works mostly but the federation aspect is leaving me with a few questions.
Will remote communities only sync new posts from when I subscribed or will past posts show up eventually?
Is having a single user instance realistic or should I try find another small instance?
Looks great, but would this take up a lot of storage? I’m currently running my instance on an oracle free tier micro instance and the storage is 47GB.
So far, not really. Only a few gigs so far, but it’s hard to predict how big it could get.
By the way, Oracle free tier has 200GB of storage for ARM64 systems.
Ruud, who runs lemmy.world, was asked how much the instance is using, see here: https://lemmy.world/comment/784410
Basically 30G DB and 60G pictrs for the whole instance for 4 weeks of usage.
They have 13k communities and 22k active users per month.
