I want to self host my own lemmy instance for personal use. I have seen there Github page and it is really easy to set up but I have some questions?

  1. How will I be able to federate with other instances?
  2. Will I be able to interact with communities from other instances?
  3. What type of hardware will be required to self host?
  4. And finally is it worth to run our own instance?
  • Jonas@fedilemmy.netEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. You can subscribe to any community or add the instance to the Allowed Instances
    2. Yes you can search the communities through your search e.g. !fediverse@lemmy.world an subscribe to it
    3. My Instance is running on Hetzner I am using the CX21 (2 Cores, 4GB RAM, 40GB Disk Space) and its running really good (Its just me on this instance for now)
    4. definitely yes 😁
  • svarrogh1337@lemmy.bgEnglish
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    1 year ago
    • There is option in the admin panel with whom to federate and whom to block.
    • Yes, just like I do now.
    • Depends on the size, it can very well run on 1CPU 1Mem
    • Single instance of the above size does not go over 5$, so for me it’s worth.