Hey, accidentally deleted my post instead of editing, oops.
It will have more work to do to keep a larger number of communties in sync however that part is actually pretty efficient. It sends just the bare minimum data in a json like format. If you have an instance you can watch the log and see them ticking along, getting and posting.
The majority of system load is from the UI. Database query's to build a users home page and feeds. At least all those query's will hit the local instances cache and spread out the load.
Chicago95, awesome! I love the retro style. I've never checked out DWM but I used to use i3wm. Loved the power. However, I always keep going back to xfce. It's just the most comfortable for me.
I thought about writing a few userscripts to fix some minor things I was dealing with... However, I really should checkout the source for lemmy-ui first. Maybe I could help out there.
As for the backend.. it's Rust all the way down right?
Can't say I'm too fancy these days. If we are including all fonts: Fira-Mono or Consolas for me. I like ligatures visually but can't stand them while coding or in my terminal.
Theme-wise I used to use Monokai or Dracula but these days I am content with the default vscode dark theme. Of course, I've got to have Numix and dark gtk/adawaita for my xfce4 desktop.
1 vCPU, 1GB Ram, 50GB storage using the smallest x86_64 compute instances on Oracle Cloud. Qualifies for always free which is nice while I'm simply testing out a personal server. It's working just fine within those constraints. For now, at least.
Like you, I'm worried about storage. I would like to run it from home, but I live in the woods and my internet isn't reliable enough.
So many long forgotten relics and old friends lost to time.
bbs, usenet, irc, aol chat rooms, aim/icq/msn messenger (by the way, anyone remember Trillian?), geocities web-rings, various phpBB forums (shoutout neopages), oekaki drawing boards, livejournal, stumbleupon,