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?

    • Jamie@jamie.moeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      My Lemmy instance is currently occupying about 350MB of RAM, but you can round that up to 400MB. A lot less than the 4GB for KBin.Technically it’s a dual user instance now, since a friend wanted to join it and I said sure.

      • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Damn, this is so much worse than good ol’ RSS for just following up stuff (which I imagine is the main argument to be made for a single-usee instance)

        • Jamie@jamie.moeEnglish
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          2 years ago

          The arguments for are varied. I don’t have to worry about any admins making decisions on federation, I can federate (or not) however I please. I have my own space that I can do what I want with in a familiar format, and I can make my username Jamie without it being taken.

          • ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Yep, making federation decisions myself is why I want to spin up my own instance at some point, and I have spare computing resources as is already lol