First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 months ago

    Welcome to the club! I used the same easy deploy setup as you! Makes life really easy eh :)

    Furthermore, to populate All, I have this one running: https://github.com/lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot

    If you do this, you will need some extra space because the database will grow, but I think it solves one of the (largest) downsides of running your own instance, namely discovering other communities.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        When you decide to set it up, you need to create a user on your instance and fill in those details in the command line to run the thing. Also make sure to change the instance name to your name, otherwise it will not work.

        Other useful commands:

        docker rm --force lemmy-subscriber-bot To actually destroy the docker container if you want to start over

        docker logs lemmy-subscriber-bot To see if the thing is running and doing things.

        • CrimeDadOP
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          111 months ago

          From the readme:

          As of the writing of this tool, and size of the fediverse (Jul 2023), using this tool, may result in disk space usage of around 2GiB/day, according to my own metrics.

          Seems kind of steep. I only have 500GB allocated to my server. I feel like there’s got to be a better way.

    • @billygoatA
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      111 months ago

      Thank you for the info. I set my instance up yesterday as well and my goal today was to do this.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Do you know how much disk space this will roughly use? Are we talking 10GB or 100GB or 1TB? Just roughly speaking.