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Not at all. I run lemmy.pt on a $5 Vultr VPS alongside some other small things. The VPS has been sitting at roughly 350/400MiB of RAM, and essentially never above 5% in the CPU. Lemmy uses less than 30MiB, PostgreSQL about 60/70 and pict-rs roughly 60.
The instance is small, but I don’t believe it will go beyond the system’s resources until it’s actually rather big, at which point it is likely I will have some financial support (many members have already expressed their availability to help out), so upgrading to a $10 plan shouldn’t be hard.

I’d argue he’s not. A fediverse is any network of federated instances that are able to communicate with each other. AP is a way of achieving that, but there are plenty other federation protocols.

I had never heard of that project, it indeed sounds interesting. Can you provide more info on the project itself and on what makes you say that last paragraph? Would love to read more on this

I think that’s a good plan. User following is a great feature but not as prominent as those others you mentioned.

A $10 VPS is overkill unless you have a lot of users really. A $5 one (1vCPU and 1GB of RAM) should be enough for quite a bit of users. In my case, I use Vultr, I think they are really great, but there are other hosts out there like DO and whatnot that have similar prices.

Regarding the domain, I’ve heard bad things about godaddy. I’ve been using PorkBun lately and it has been great; support is fast and helpful (had some troubles with payment and they solved it quickly). Again, it isn’t too important, since you can transfer domains to other registrars.

Everything else is on point 👌
I believe there’s also a Yunohost thingy for lemmy¹, which would make it a 1-click process, essentially. However, that comes with some overhead, dunno how much.

Decentraleyes is dead, swap it for LocalCDN, an actively maintained fork.

Also, for any Portuguese users out there, Lemmy has been fully translated :D

What proprietary parts

Water treatment is also costly and even though you might have a small effect, you should try to use the least water you can. But yeah, heating is definitely a concern too.

I see. I don’t personally see much use in it, but I can see how it can be nice.

Sorry for the question, but what even is the purpose of a standalone download manager?

Nice to hear!

I’m excited about Lemmy, looks like a really nice project. It has a pretty good interface, which is an absolute must for alternatives such as this to even have a remote chance of success. Also curious to see how federation will perform. Finally, lemmur is cool, but it runs awfully bad on my phone, but so do all Flutter apps. Scrolling is hyper sluggish, animations are not fluid, buttons have input delay, etc. It’s a shame, because the app looks and works well otherwise. There’s certainly work to do in UI/UX (I’m in love with Slide for reddit lol) but it has come a long way already.

Big congrats to all involved! I might chip in some translations when I get some time.