blotzJun 26, 2023

Lemmy on a raspberry pi

https://lemmy.world/post/632596

Lemmy on a raspberry pi - Lemmy.world

Does anyone run their own Lemmy instance on a pi? How was the process of setting it up? Were there any pitfalls? How is performance?

Show threadGustavoMJun 26, 2023
Not yet, but I'm planning to. And I don't think there will be any "pitfalls" at all other than your microsd dying in a couple of months rather than years due to it getting hammered constantly by API requests, etc.
Show threadr00ty

You could plug in a USB SSD or HDD and make sure the DB and other regularly written data goes there. That would pretty much remove the problem.

I would wonder how well it would perform. The limited memory and cpu power surely would make database access not great under even moderate load.

Jun 26, 2023 at 3:04pmWeb
Show threadGustavoMJun 26, 2023

You are right -- I completely forgot about those, thanks.

I would wonder how well it would perform.

Something between "usable" to "a complete nightmare" -- depending of how popular the lemmy instance is. Which would scare new users away, leaving it as a "cool kids only" thing. Then again, theres the fact that the power draw is little to none, which is very important regarding most self-hosting stuff -- "can't use it if I can't maintain it".