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?

  • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year 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.

    • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      As I only want to use it for myself as jump-off point (and to mess around a tad) I’m fine with performance on an RPi4 (have the 8 GB version), but I’m struggling to get it next to the rest in my Debian install on it.

      Local install fails as I need imagemagick 7 (Debian still had 6.9), and it refuses to compile with imei method. (that script wants to use /usr/local/bin/identify which I think it needs to install itself (part of imagemagick) and the compose file I couldn’t get to work with an external (already hosted) postgres.

      Any tips? I’m totally new with docker and ansible.