I am considering creating my own lemmy instance as my current instance (lemmy.world) is often down, and I enjoy this kind of a project. That being said I haven’t been able to find any resources on hw needed for this? If I have a raspberry pi 4b 8g with 128gb is that enough for just me using it? Do I need to pay for a cloud server to host it? How can federation work if I only have <10 users tops? Anything else I might need to know?

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[–] gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy doesn't require a lot of resources to run smoothly, especially for instances with a low number of users. The only concern may be if you upload a lot of images, they are stored on your drive.

If you don't want to manage a single user instance you can join someone's instance (like mine, I am the only one in my instance)