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Reddit mods are organizing blackouts to protest against API changes (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The load issues are because of users directly connecting to lemmy.ml. Federation isnt using many resources, so its best if users spread out across different instances.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does it take to spin up an instance and federate? Can I just grab a docker image and go with some cloud Linux instance? What resources are we looking at for what headcount of users / level of engagement? (ie, posts and or connections per minute, etc)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

@whitehatbofh @nutomic

I run a small instance for a few of our staff and a couple of rss/bot accounts.

I use a small DigitalOcean droplet that installs the software automatically. Very easy to run with a small number of people.

Running on a very small server. 4 GB Memory / 80 GB Disk . Works well.

I might not be your best example though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the confirmation, glad to not be adding more than my fair share.