Yeah honestly, it’s great so far. I tried searxng for quite awhile and it did the trick somewhat, but damn SEO farms were my biggest pet peeve. The time I save is worth the money
Long-term Linux operations guy who somehow became a Golang developer.
I also run the lemmy.serverfail.party instance
Yeah honestly, it’s great so far. I tried searxng for quite awhile and it did the trick somewhat, but damn SEO farms were my biggest pet peeve. The time I save is worth the money
Pretty great on the web browser front-end to be honest - haven’t had an issue when I have used it on my phone. Not sure about the app side of things since I’ve been trying to limit my doom scrolling to when I’m at a computer
Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.
I’ve been happy with Bitwarden thus far. Used Lastpass back in the day, but migrated over when the renewal prices started creeping up.
Surprised it’s not mentioned here, but Bzflag.
Super fun tank shooter game that doesn’t take much to run, and reminds me of a cross between the very old bolo game and Mario kart’s battle mode.
Yeah - this was a tad annoying at work today. Thank god for terraform if outages had become more severe
Ran it around Christmas - was still an intense resource hog. Lots of features and great for corps, but too much otherwise
I just run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.
I’ve heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it’ll work for you)
This is my droplet with 1GB of RAM only running lemmy:
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 964 386 68 141 509 219
Swap: 2047 310 1737
So expect at least 1GB for lemmy with postgres included when you include spikes etc.
Same. I know it’s more work than caddy etc, but I’ve been doing it for eons now so it’s muscle memory at this point.
The bigger instances mostly are fine on the auth side, it’s primarily pictures and some slow SQL stuff being worked on still. So best thing some users can do on smaller instances is be aware that the bigger ones may go up and down a little, so content may come in bursts from the communities on the bigger ones
Awesome, thanks for all the recommendations folks! I’m going to try out calibre-web and kavita and see how they are
Thanks! It’s my “fun” domain.
But yeah, you shouldn’t have any issues with bandwidth if you don’t have a massive amount of users. The big instances are running into bottlenecks related to CPU/disk speed from what I’ve been seeing vs network speed.
Judging from my DO usage network chart, with me subscribed to a ton of communities: minimal. Just a lot of API calls back and forth from federated servers.
Generally, if in the same country you’d have to comply. As another example though: If your server was in Canada, and some department in Alabama wanted your data, you could tell them to pound sand. Though they may put some sort of warrant out for you for failure to comply (doesn’t matter though if you never go there)