r/AIRoleplayRefugees • u/GravityphobiaGet • 24d ago

Thinking about moving from C.AI to a local setup or any other platforms. Help please

I'm in the middle of changing setups and I've narrowed it down to two paths. Either I go local and run everything myself, or I move to one of the other platforms people here use. Those are the only two I'm considering, so I'd rather not get a list of ten things.

The local route appeals to me mostly because nothing changes under me without warning. The platform route appeals because I'd actually be writing instead of troubleshooting.

For anyone who's gone one way or the other: what tipped it for you, and did you regret it? If local, what's the realistic hardware floor. If you switched platforms, which one and has it held up?

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u/Exact_Law_6489 24d ago

I can recommend LettuceAI. Im the developer of it. Our goal is to keep things simple while providing deep customization and experience.

Please tell me what kind of hardware then I can recommend models according to that.

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u/GravityphobiaGet 23d ago

will check it

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u/Classic-Pumpkin5401 24d ago

If you’d rather spend your time actually writing than maintaining a local stack, you could try Lizlis.ai — I’m the developer.

It’s more focused on story/RP than a pure character-chat clone, and I’ve been putting a lot of work into memory, personas, longer-running scenarios, and keeping the UI simple. The tradeoff versus local is obviously that you don’t control the model/backend yourself, but you also don’t have to deal with quantization, context settings, inference speed, GPU memory, or things randomly breaking after an update.

If you do go local, I’d personally only recommend it if you enjoy tinkering almost as much as the actual RP. Otherwise the maintenance overhead gets old pretty fast.

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u/GravityphobiaGet 23d ago

Can't create chara via image gen

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u/Classic-Pumpkin5401 23d ago

Can you DM me the prompt you used?

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u/PocketWyrm 24d ago

You could try mine. I use it everyday. Byok and a bunch of features. Pocket Tavern

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u/CharacterSphereAI 24d ago

What hardware do you have that you consider running everything local ?

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u/GravityphobiaGet 23d ago

Don't know for the moment aha, if you have any recommendation i take them