what is better for single user instance, or maybe something small like under 10 users (no communities)? which is lighter on resources? how much storage should I allocate?

any alternatives to lemmy and kbin that are still somewhat similar?

    • Jamie@jamie.moeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      My Lemmy instance is currently occupying about 350MB of RAM, but you can round that up to 400MB. A lot less than the 4GB for KBin.Technically it’s a dual user instance now, since a friend wanted to join it and I said sure.

      • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Damn, this is so much worse than good ol’ RSS for just following up stuff (which I imagine is the main argument to be made for a single-usee instance)

        • Jamie@jamie.moeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          The arguments for are varied. I don’t have to worry about any admins making decisions on federation, I can federate (or not) however I please. I have my own space that I can do what I want with in a familiar format, and I can make my username Jamie without it being taken.

          • ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yep, making federation decisions myself is why I want to spin up my own instance at some point, and I have spare computing resources as is already lol

          • TortoiseWrath@tortoisewrath.comEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            My other reason is that it’s the only way to know I picked an instance that isn’t going to just go away without me and take my account with it. It will be an interesting day when the first major lemmy instance goes down…

      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Keep in mind as php-fpm (used by Kbin) launches multiple child processes instead of a single rust process like Lemmy. The number of child processes can be tuned down to reduce RAM usage if necessary.

        • Jamie@jamie.moeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          After almost 24 hours, coming up on 662MB of images, and 371MB for the postegres database. Though, I could see the numbers fluctuating depending on how much stuff you’re subscribed to. I’m currently subscribed to 31 communities, most of them fairly large.