Fediverse

I found the ansible playbook route described at join-lemmy.org to be very easy to install on a VPS. The benefit of a VPS is much simpler setup than running a home server, networking-wise. Plus it’s special purpose, so no need to worry about interfering with other things as you would on a multi purpose server.

I use mine as basically a personal blog that I have a bit more control over. I’ve subscribed to just a few communities on other instances to keep resource use modest.

1. You can subscribe to any community or add the instance to the Allowed Instances
2. Yes you can search the communities through your search e.g. !fediverse@lemmy.world an subscribe to it
3. My Instance is running on Hetzner I am using the CX21 (2 Cores, 4GB RAM, 40GB Disk Space) and its running really good (Its just me on this instance for now)
4. definitely yes 😁

• There is option in the admin panel with whom to federate and whom to block.
• Yes, just like I do now.
• Depends on the size, it can very well run on 1CPU 1Mem
• Single instance of the above size does not go over 5$, so for me it's worth.