Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough, sans the image store. But it's not a hard requirement unless you expect to have lots of local communities posting pictures.

Lemmy's issue is that it's non-trivial to deploy and oftentimes painful to upgrade.

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

But it’s not a hard requirement unless you expect to have lots of local communities posting pictures.

Doesn't lemmy sync posts, comments, and pictures with other instances? I remember after a CP attack some instances manually turned it off in the code to avoid troubles, and also had to clear their storage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It absolutely does. Think of lemmy like of email – your mail server has all the email you received.

[–] Kalcifer 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough

Not including the time cost to manage it.

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

That's exactly my point, though.

[–] Kalcifer 1 points 2 months ago

I was trying to say that the hardware cost to host it may not be expensive, but the management cost could be quite costly.