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Two more PieFed instances (join.piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Recently there have been two more PieFed instances created, which offer accounts to anyone who wants one:

Feddit.online is hosted in USA which should make it a little faster for people there. It also has a different topic structure at https://feddit.online/topics than PieFed.social has.

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[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what are the system requirements? (sorry I think you already said it once but I can't recall)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Roughly 2 GB of RAM, 2 cores of CPU. PieFed.social has 8 GB and 4 cores for 150 users and that is more than enough power. We haven't had a very busy instance with thousands of users so the only scaling tests have been to do with federation - "what happens if I join every community". The UI is very lightweight, tho.

It really depends how many communities you subscribe to. A single user instance might be able to use less.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you!

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So someone like me that has a couple hundred subscriptions is a far bigger server load that someone who browses via all?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, sort of. The total number of subscriptions (by all users) determines the load caused by federation. If you subscribe to 200 communities then I subscribe to the same 200 the federation load will not increase.

So once an instance has more than a dozen users pretty much every community that exists will be subscribed to and adding more users will not increase federation load (but it would increase load caused by the UI)