Hey, accidentally deleted my post instead of editing, oops.

It will have more work to do to keep a larger number of communties in sync however that part is actually pretty efficient. It sends just the bare minimum data in a json like format. If you have an instance you can watch the log and see them ticking along, getting and posting.

The majority of system load is from the UI. Database query’s to build a users home page and feeds. At least all those query’s will hit the local instances cache and spread out the load.

Chicago95, awesome! I love the retro style. I’ve never checked out DWM but I used to use i3wm. Loved the power. However, I always keep going back to xfce. It’s just the most comfortable for me.

Looked over your other post,

Your instance A replicates or really caches the content from C@B indefinitely, if you are subscribed to it (or if anyone on your instance is subscribed). When you make a post on C@B your instance transmits that post data to B. Other instances subscribed to C@B will get your post when they receive cache updates. As long as the instances aren’t overloaded it is a pretty snappy process in my experience.

Pictures are not replicated but hosted on the instance of the user posting them. Post/Comment data is cached. Your instance will store a cache of all the subscribed communities. Even with a large number of subscriptions all that data is just text and gets filed into the database without consuming much space at all.

Edit: just some things I’ve read while setting up my instance. Pretty sure that’s accurate.

Good points there.

Maybe this has some issues I hadnt thought about yet. I was thinking, in comments, certain Lemmy links should be rewritten so you load them on your own instance and can actually interact.

Like if a link is ‘!communty@external.tld’, rewrite it to ‘usersinstance.tld/c/community@external.tld’ However, I guess if a community hasn’t been discovered by that instance yet it would 404.

Obviously I haven’t looked at the source or even activity pub spec so just thinking blindly.

I thought about writing a few userscripts to fix some minor things I was dealing with… However, I really should checkout the source for lemmy-ui first. Maybe I could help out there.

As for the backend… it’s Rust all the way down right?

Can’t say I’m too fancy these days. If we are including all fonts: Fira-Mono or Consolas for me. I like ligatures visually but can’t stand them while coding or in my terminal.

Theme-wise I used to use Monokai or Dracula but these days I am content with the default vscode dark theme. Of course, I’ve got to have Numix and dark gtk/adawaita for my xfce4 desktop.

1 vCPU, 1GB Ram, 50GB storage using the smallest x86_64 compute instances on Oracle Cloud. Qualifies for always free which is nice while I’m simply testing out a personal server. It’s working just fine within those constraints. For now, at least.

Like you, I’m worried about storage. I would like to run it from home, but I live in the woods and my internet isn’t reliable enough.

So many long forgotten relics and old friends lost to time.

bbs, usenet, irc, aol chat rooms, aim/icq/msn messenger (by the way, anyone remember Trillian?), geocities web-rings, various phpBB forums (shoutout neopages), oekaki drawing boards, livejournal, stumbleupon,