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I am considering creating my own lemmy instance as my current instance (lemmy.world) is often down, and I enjoy this kind of a project. That being said I haven’t been able to find any resources on hw needed for this? If I have a raspberry pi 4b 8g with 128gb is that enough for just me using it? Do I need to pay for a cloud server to host it? How can federation work if I only have <10 users tops? Anything else I might need to know?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've heard instances are using some sort of bot to "discover" communities

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed. [email protected] is my community for, well, testing. It has 63 subscribers. One is me, the rest are bots that managed to find the community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

GitHub Link for one of those bots, which mentions in the README that there are similar bots here and here