I’ve read that setting up your own node and doing solo mining helps further decentralise Monero. However, can a Raspberry Pi or multiple ones, really make a difference?

I’m not interested in actual earnings from mining. Only helping the network.

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 22 hours ago

Disclaimer: I have not attempted this

However, in my experience of resource usage on x86, a recent Pi with at least 2GB of RAM and sufficient storage, should be enough to run monerod.

As for getting linked up to the network and providing data to clients, that's another story. As I understand it, you need clients to connect in order to "help the network" (I'm hazy on this, so please correct me if I'm wrong). So you might want to find some node lists and add yours once it's up.

However, one bonus of running a local node (on a Pi or anything else) is that your wallets will sync much much faster over the local network than they will over the internet.