AS a ex single lemmy user, yes. I use PieFed instead. Background: https://jeena.net/lemmy-switch-to-piefed

As others have already said, piefed is much lighter than lemmy, and is what I’m running as well, my instance isn’t necessarily single-user, (anyone’s free to join), but there’s only one other user on my instance

as a single user lemmy, no

I run a single user PieFed instance for a month now. Compatible with Lemmy. Everything runs smooth so far.

Hi, single user lemmy instance here. I'd say it's been smooth sailing for now. I might consider moving to piefed like other folks here, but I'll keep it and see. Right now i can't even upgrade due to arm64 docker images are broken at the moment, but it's sufficient enough.

EDIT: Seems like it's fixed, yippee :D https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6201#issuecomment-3693373333 kudos to mattlqx :)

It's something I've wanted to do for a while. Honestly I want to host a Lemmy instance and my own peertube instance.

Two things are stopping me. I don't understand certain points of how things interact in the software or how to set it up properly to self host and be comfortable in it's security. I barely understand docker and some other stuff. It sucks because I understood how to use DOS at an around 14 by reading the manual. I also don't have the funding to do so in a way that I would feel comfortable at this point. I don't fully trust co-mingling my home services with web services due to the security risks.

I run a single user instance and it's horribly slow. Mostly because I only have HDDs and not enough RAM to compensate. I hope Lemmy 1.0 will increase database performance.

Piefed is supposedly much more performant. But I'm shying away from migrating because I don't want to lose my post history and uploaded pictures.

I did it for a while but my system was constantly busy and there was this controversy about the image cache and possible CSAM which then prompted me to switch to using the flagship instance. Haven't tried any of the alternatives, though.

Running "my" own single user instance here.

Great! Love it! The whole idea.

Thanks for all the feedback!

I’m going to take a look at PieFed, maybe run both in parallel for a few weeks and see which one fells better 😉.

I have heard from others who have done this that the storage space for the content will fill up incredibly quick unless you keep it disconnected from federation.

I did it for a while and it was a fun little technical project but once the pictrs image cache exhausted the amount of storage I got in the cloud host service's free tier, I stopped because I didn't feel like spending money on it

I run dullsters.net which is sort of a single user instance. Nobody else can make accounts it's strictly for one community.

Another single-user Piefed guy weighing in. Do it.

My instance runs great... I've got it on NVME drives and a system with 64GB of RAM. When I was hosting it on Digital Ocean, I often ran into performance issues with RAM (I think I just had 2GB). Since the switch it's been rock solid.

I run a more-or-less single user instance. It's fine. Not the fastest page-loads but otherwise NBD.

I'm hosting the Decronym bot on a single-user instance, and it's a real pain. The bot's been down for weeks, actually, because an upgrade failed with some obscure error around the database schema...

I've ended up just today, wiping the whole thing and starting over, losing all data and having to refederate the bot. So yeah, I wouldn't recommend.

[Acronyms to help the bot re-establish: LVM, HASS, k8s]

And now running both Lemmy and PieFed side by side (OP, posting from my PieFed account).

I think admin wise I am going to stick with PieFed. Definitely liking it more!

Directly compatible with Lemmy, there's Friendica (Facebook-like; also compatible with Twitter-like posts e.g. from Mastodon), Mbin (simplified/cleaner UI; also hybrid like Friendica), and PieFed (apparently more Reddit-like than Lemmy from what I read, in a technical sense).

Dunno which are better/worse to run, but I remember seeing hardware requirements on the docs of each of them.

Also it's not uncommon to see single user instances from my experience. But if you feel it's a waste of domain/resources, you could also create some dedicated community or something to give further use for it.

Have run Lemmy and now Piefed, it's nice to have things customized to your wants, but probably wouldn't bother if it was setting up a host just for that.

i am considering spinning up a piefed boi, which at the most, would end up with maybe 5 users.

we'll see!

Having to run a full-blown PostgreSQL instance just for a single user is a show-stopper for me.

I did it for a while but I had loads of annoying lags in updates, guess you had to roam around to get things going, maybe it's all okay now, IDK. If it's just for surfing I don't see any reason to do it, otherwise it was a fun experiment.

I've thought of doing it for privacy and other reasons. I don't have the sense that the resource load is high, but I haven't checked carefully.

I have tried snac before as a minimalist fediverse server but the blog style layout isn’t really for me.

I have also considered wether a personal Lemmy is a good idea or not.

generally it is fine but it is kind of resource intensive

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