Heya, I’m trying out Lemmy and kinda like the idea of hosting a Lemmy instance just for me.
I was wondering:
- What are the hardware/bandwidth requirements for a single user instance?
- I know different instances can black list each other, but can they whitelist each other too? I don’t want to be automatically unable to see interact with certain instances.
- Has anyone else done this and have thoughts to share?
- What about doing the same for Mastodon?
Wait, people pay actual, real world dollars to host their instances? Why? What is actually gained by this?
I’m really trying not to judge, I just genuinely can’t understand paying actual money to use this site (or fediverse or w/e you want to call it).