I had an account on lemmy.one and now the instance has been down for a day or two so I made this new account. I also heard other small instances are dead or disappeared.

So which ones do you think will actually stick around for a long time?

ALSO, does anyone know how to get my subscriptions from lemmy.one and import it here? TIA!

  • The Bard in Green
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    1 year ago

    I’m running my own instance, JUST so I can be in control of my own Lemmy experience (and in control of my own archive of my Lemmy activity). I’m not going anywhere anytime soon.

    Yes, my instance was down for three days last week. I had trouble with an update and didn’t have time to troubleshoot it. But I wanted my Lemmy so I DID get around to it and got it working again. And yeah… I never did get email working properly so when my ONE friend who’s not me joined my instance I had to command line into the database and approve him manually. But so what?

    And yeah, eventually the internet ecosystem may shift again, or I might get hit by a bus or who knows?

    But if you WANT to join a tiny instance that’s 99.999% (bus factor) not going anywhere for a while, I’d probably let you join mine.

    • @kenbw2
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      21 year ago

      How many GB is your filesystem/database as a single-user instance?

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Not the person you ask, but as I’m in the same boat (finally got everything running except email lol), I use a scrap dell PC with a 8gen hexacore, 512GB SSD, 4TB HD & 8GB RAM on a 1Gb/~700Mb line 🤷 I’m aiming at an artsy/comics drawings server (hence some initial space) and I think I’ll open it up for inscriptions when I have figured out the OVH mail config…

        But it’s a big step, today if it crams it’s just impacting me.

        Cheers!

        • @Gamey
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          11 year ago

          I don’t host my own instance but that sounds immensly overpowered for the job! Lemmy doesn’t even host images and pure text, a database and web interface shouldn’t be that hard to host

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Yeah I know, I’ll probably use it for other things too :-)

            I have pictrs alongside Lemmy though, so I can share images in Lemmy.

            • @Gamey
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              21 year ago

              Awesome, self-hosting for the win! :)