phoenix591

@phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad lemmy’s fetching seems to be better: once a community is on your instance its there and you get everything except stuff from servers you’ve defederated with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  btc is bitcoin yes. coinbase is one of the bigger exchanges so that’s fine

  if you live in the USA crypto makes your taxes more complicated; the IRS wants to know when you buy and sell it and how much you got it for just like traditional investments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I reference another community on my or another instance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  what are you talking about? the !community@instance.tld method works perfectly fine even when on an instance that hasn’t pulled in that community yet. It takes a little longer to load but its literally how I’ve pulled in most if not all of the communities I’m subscribed to on my one person instance.

  maybe your info is out of date?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where do the instances actually reside?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It has the power to run a one user instance, I’m sure it would run into issues trying to squeeze a normal amount of people onto it, but a handful sure.

  I run everything off an external hard drive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where do the instances actually reside?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy can run on a decent variety of hardware, just has to be some thing left on 24/7 and exposed to the internet (be careful, the internet is a hostile place… mine was getting scanned and poked constantly until I put it behind cloudflare and then locked the firewall down to just let in cloudflare), and of course more users take more powerful hardware.

  For my personal just me instance though, I’m just running it on a Raspberry Pi 4 I run some other stuff on. Uses less than a gig of memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there an easy way for non-technical experts to set up their own Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  some instances let anyone create their own community (lemmy equivalent of subreddit)

  I’d recommend tech experience before setting up your own lemmy server ( instance); the internet is a hostile place with random pcs poking servers 24/7