Hi everyone, _Frog here

I wanted to give you an update on the current status of feddit.ch and the first month since the creation of the platform.

Where i came from:

Reddit was my home for the last 8 years or so and i loved how you just could look for anything you like and find it there. I brought many friends over, since “there’s something for everyone”.

But reddit changed and not in a good way. I never liked the way they tried to monetize their platform and our information on it. With ads spreading in recent year, the situation got worse. Even more trackers got implemented and reddit evolved in a massive data octopus.

Since reddit announced the their new api pricing model, i was looking for alternatives to this massive platform with thousands of subreddits and millions of users. Through various other users and subreddits and some research i came across the fediverse and really liked the idea.

I always wanted to contribute something to an open community but never had a project, i really could help with. Then i came along the idea of creating feddit.ch a lemmy instance in the fediverse. With this, i hope i can contribute to a open network and give back something to the user, the community, to you.

So here we are, one month in on the project and i’m still happy i did it.

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Now comes the technical part, for anybody wondering on what and how feddit.ch actually works.

My infrastructure runs on Microsoft Azure in Zurich, Switzerland

The instance started originally with: Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS, B2s VM (2-Core, 4GB RAM), 32GB Standard SSD (OS) [server-side-encrypted], 16GB Premium Disk (Lemmy Data) [server-side-encrypted], Public IPv4

Estimated estimated costs: ~44 CHF

Instance details right now:

Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS, B2ms VM (2-Core, 8GB RAM), 32GB Standard SSD (OS), 64GB Premium Disk, ~20GB used (Lemmy Data and DB), Public IPv4 & IPv6 (thanks to @Broom2101@feddit.ch, SMTP over mailersend.com

Estimated monthly costs: ~88 CHF

In the image of the post, you can see the network traffic and disk i/o of the last 30 days.

I did some reservations on azure to bring down the costs, time will tell how much it really costs.

The management of the vm can only be done through a on demand jump host and the configuration is done with the lemmy ansible setup method. There is a daily backup for the worst case scenario.

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I want to be transparent on how i’m doing things and what you get if you register on this instance. So if you have any questions, adjustments or ideas i’m open to hear them, just let me know.

_Frog

PS: If you like to contribute and support this instance, i setup librepay where you can donate.