Your instance will only clone new content after you’ve federated with a community. And it’s per community, not per instance.
It will also be generating thumbnails for websites that are linked, and a good chunk of the data requirement goes here.
I can tell you that, on average, my instance consumes about 700MB per day. I could cut that down if I federated with less communities, and I could get it down to 400-500MB per day (probably less) if I blocked my instance from generating thumbnails.
It’s not a lot, but over time it will add up. My instance is pretty new, and I have no idea what pruning options are available yet. I’ve got over a month before I have to worry about storage space at the rate I’m using it.
As for system requirements, as long as you’re not supporting users besides yourself, Lemmy will pretty much run on a potato.
TL;DR
400-700MB new data per day depending on your usage habits
Whatever you want to run it on will probably be fine
EDIT: Turns out ~90% of my Lemmy data is just for debugging and not needed:
That’s it, I think some political people need their own potato! Put them on an island and the only contact they have is liking their own comments and posts…
I’d like to know that too. Do I have to mirror the whole fediverse in my personal instance?
Your instance will only clone new content after you’ve federated with a community. And it’s per community, not per instance.
It will also be generating thumbnails for websites that are linked, and a good chunk of the data requirement goes here.
I can tell you that, on average, my instance consumes about 700MB per day. I could cut that down if I federated with less communities, and I could get it down to 400-500MB per day (probably less) if I blocked my instance from generating thumbnails.
It’s not a lot, but over time it will add up. My instance is pretty new, and I have no idea what pruning options are available yet. I’ve got over a month before I have to worry about storage space at the rate I’m using it.
As for system requirements, as long as you’re not supporting users besides yourself, Lemmy will pretty much run on a potato.
TL;DR
EDIT: Turns out ~90% of my Lemmy data is just for debugging and not needed:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3103#issuecomment-1631643416
That’s it, I think some political people need their own potato! Put them on an island and the only contact they have is liking their own comments and posts…
Hard disagree, circlejerks and bubbles are bad for discourse