Lemmy Support

For micro/personal server runners, I built a tool to automatically discover and add communities to your local instance :)

https://github.com/lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot

Just for context, subscribing to about ~800 communities, of which have about more than 50 users/month, my metrics have indicated a disk space usage of about 2GiB/day, 20% of a single CPU core, and about 8~10GiB/traffic a day.

Unfortunately, it seems that most of the disk space used is by a single database table used primarily for debugging, thus once that issue is fixed, the disk space usage should drop dramatically into maybe just a hundred MiB a day or less.

EDIT: For support requests, I've created https://lemmy.world/c/lsbsupport as well.

It's not based on users really, it's based on unique communities followed, so if you have 2 users who both follow the same communities you only pay for each community once.

But apparently storage is the main requirement, so you'll need a bit, think the numbers were like 5gb/day for a mid-sized server.

I've been wondering this myself but haven't asked/looked into it yet. I'm starting to wrap my head around how this works. If I understand correctly you would obviously have the communities you host and would also cache the communities the users of your instance subscribe to or interact with.

Does "interact" mean any interaction is what I'm not sure of. Simply upvoting a post? Simply viewing it? Is viewing it from /all considered viewing it?

I may be completely wrong... So looking forward to someone who does know to respond or link you to something that explains it.

Having a homelab myself and running quite a few services I'm still so iffy on allowing anything out on the wider web in such a public way.

Sorry, I can't help you, but what is vlemmy? A special kind of lemmy (different frontend etc)? Or was it a special community?