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Lemmy on a raspberry pi (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by blotz@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Does anyone run their own Lemmy instance on a pi? How was the process of setting it up? Were there any pitfalls? How is performance?

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[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I was able to get it setup, main things to watch out for:

  • Don't use the provided docker compose file. Or more precisely don't build from source and lookup the correct image tag on docker hub first.
  • The documentation was a bit confusing. This isn't really specific for the Pi but since I was creating a compose file from scratch some of the steps listed didn't quite explain all of the details.

I only used it for testing purposes, but performance was fine (on a Pi4 4gb). Note I only ever had one user.

[–] blotz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Im looking at setting up a lemmy instance on a rpi3 with cloudflared tunnel! I'm curious to see if anyone else has done this and how it was.

Edit: I'll give it a whirl and hopefully post an update from my new instance later!

[–] Tolstoy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Please don't forget to give us updates on your adventure^^

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think there should be any problems, lemmy is a fairly lightweight web application, it's compiled so no big overhead of some runtime like ruby in case of mastodon. I haven't tried it on a raspberry Pi, but on my server the load is always just around 0.1

The only bottleneck I could think of was Postgres, but I've been running postgres on raspberry pies without any problems before too.