what is better for single user instance, or maybe something small like under 10 users (no communities)? which is lighter on resources? how much storage should I allocate?
any alternatives to lemmy and kbin that are still somewhat similar?
I’m a PHP developer, I prefer PHP but I’m probably going to be going with Lemmy since it’s more refined currently.
I was also looking into both but in the end I chose lemmy because I didn’t want to deal with PHP.
You could also have a look at Friendica: https://friendi.ca/
It has groups support that is compatible with Lemmy.
Lemmy should be lighter on resources, since it’s written in Rust.
Far, far lighter on RAM for sure. Less than half a gig for Lemmy, multiple gigs for KBin
Kbin is PHP app so you should be able to tune down idle worker counts to use less memory. Certainly not as low as Lemmy being a compiled rust app, but 500 MB of RAM usage should be achievable. As for CPU usage, I’ve been running a personal Lemmy instance and I’m impressed with how low the CPU usage so far, even after federating with dozens communities. Can’t say the same about Kbin because I haven’t actually run it myself, but PHP 8’s JIT is very fast so I imagine it shouldn’t use too much CPU as well.
@cyclohexane I think this should be merged today with a bit of luck: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/143
