How to Choose a Lemmy Instance Based on Latency and Least Blocked Users?

jeena , 11 months ago

For those two specifically I’d suggest to host one yourself. You then are 100% in control over blocking users/instances and the latency is super short because you’re the only one on the server. That’s what I’m doing.

RxBrad , 11 months ago

What kind of storage requirements are there?

It feels like you’d eat up a lot of storage, fast. Especially if you subscribe to anything video/photo-related.

jeena , 11 months ago

With Mastodon yes because it caches everything on your server, but with Lemmy no, because it hot-links media from the other server without caching it.

<span style="color:#323232;">jeena@Abraham:~/lemmy/volumes$ du -sh *
</span><span style="color:#323232;">8.0K	lemmy-ui
</span><span style="color:#323232;">5.2G	pictrs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2.8G	postgres
</span>

I’m subscribed to around 50 communities for about 2 months.

RxBrad , 11 months ago

Huh. That’s surprisingly light.

I self-host my own Mastodon server and relay about 50 hashtags (no full servers). Even with media getting flushed every 3 days, it still hovers around 20GB.

I’m probably gonna do it now, because of course I will.