I feel like over the past few months, the main thing preventing me from getting super active in the fediverse has been all of the drama surrounding federation and instances shutting down.
I just want to be able to turn my brain off, and not have to think “Will this instance be around in 6 months?” every time I post.
As a result, I’ve been thinking about creating a Lemmy and/or Mastodon instance that is literally just me and no one else. No communities or anything, simply me posting to other instances via this private instance. And I know that this instance will stay alive and federated for as long as I keep hosting it.
However before I go through the effort of setting these up, I want to know what people think about private instances. Is this bad taste? Is it a logistical nightmare? Have people done this before? And what would the hardware requirements for a 1 user instance look like?
I thought I’d also mention this very useful script: Lemmy-Easy-Deploy, which was specifically made for users without much experience self-hosting. At the minimum, all that you need to do is edit one file, and then run
./deploy.shevery time you want to upgrade to a new Lemmy release.Oh my god! This is brilliant. I’ve spent the last two days following various guides and hitting a brick wall each time! Thank you!
Yeah, it’s great. The dev even went out of his way to fix the arm64 situation, which was important for me as I got a cheap Hetzner ARM64 server for my instance :D