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submitted 2 years ago by CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

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[–] infamousbelgian@waste-of.space 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you; bookmarked.

[–] infamousbelgian@waste-of.space 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] infamousbelgian@waste-of.space 2 points 2 years ago

I have the feeling that this is extremely exaggerated. I only have 40 Gb in total and still have 23 gb free. I don't run the tool constantly, but run it every once in a while to make sure that my All has interesting communities. If it would be 2 gb/day I would be loooooong over my 40...

[–] TelepathicWalrus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] infamousbelgian@waste-of.space 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mine went from 8 gb to 20-ish gb. So not that much ;)

[–] code@lemmy.mayes.io 1 points 2 years ago

The latest really improves things space wise and cleans up better. Single instance here for almost a month. About 50-60 subscription’s and am at 2gb db size

[–] billygoat@catata.fish 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] koper@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just so you know, this also creates more load on other instances, especially the larger ones.

[–] infamousbelgian@waste-of.space 1 points 2 years ago

Hmmm that is not really the small instances “fault”, but that is the idea of the Fediverse…