I’ve been considering launching a Lemmy server for a community lately, but am now back exploring piefed with the Lemm.ee shutdown.

I’ve read that Lemmy for some has been quite resource intensive and piefed was much easier on CPU and RAM. Is anyone able to share some metrics, say, for this server for reference?

It looks like documentation is better for piefed and the mod tools are better. I like the topics organization.

Downside is that the interstellar app didn’t seem to have that feature built in.

Also, my phone really does not like the word piefed lol.

But I’m starting to consider whether to trim a piefed instance instead of Lemmy. Is there anything I should know ahead of time? Such as unexpected gotchas or federation issues with Lemmy?

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The INSTALL.md says it’s a minimum of 2 CPU cores and 3GB of RAM, with 4 cores and 5GB+ RAM recommended. When that page was written, piefed.social used 100GB of disk space.

    I run a single-user instance. It runs on a cheap 4core/8GB RAM vServer along a multitude of other services. My media storage on disk is just 8GB and I believe the postgres database has blown up to another 8GB. Obviously the numbers are going to increase once you or your users post more images and subscribe to more communities than I do.

    I haven’t tracked CPU and RAM, but I think it’s pretty okay. Obviously there is some constant activity, since Fediverse servers exchange a lot of information and there are comments and votes coming in all the time.