Hi, I’ve got my instance (the one I’m posting from) running a couple days ago. Everything seems to work, but I notice that the little content I have on my instance can only very rarely be found from other instances. I installed lemmy with the ansible method, but is there something I should still look at myself? Thanks.
I’ve made my own instance, but gave up keeping it, because it fetched like half of the comments from other instances and federated only half of mine.
And also I don’t think my single-user instance had positive impact on popular instances load. Data fetching is still happened.
It still helps a lot because most of the load is coming from serving up the feed. Just federating the data to another server is much lighter than serving up everything via the instance’s website.
Thanks for clarification, glad I’ve kept configs, just stopped it. Can’t say yet if I like lemmy and will stay, but I hope that’ll turn up to something great soon, so that instance will run again.