Submitted 1 year ago by snowyday@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I’m a nerd but not to the point I’m ready to install my own servers.
Is there a way for folks like me to set up and run a Lemmy, or is that reserved for the technical experts?
On the old site, I think one of the unspoken benefits was that anyone could create and run a sun
Hey. I did this, I self host a lot of stuff and at some point it just became my default setting. In this case though I dont think its really that valuable unless you’re planning on hosting your own communities and moderate users and whatnot which comes with its own admin burden. Not to deter you or anything. I used a modified docker compose, so you’d need some way to host lemmy, lemmy’s UI server and a database backend, and a reverse proxy in front… DNS and SSL certificates… Its kinda intermediate to highly technical to host your own I guess? Would I recommend it to someone not technical? No, unless you were really keen and looking for a project to expand your skills a bit. 😉
I’m trying to do exactly this (docker, nginx, SSL) and I’m having a hard time (everything works except the nginx <=> lemmy-ui 🥵).
I’m not an expert though, so I have to “learn” every brick here :-) interesting!
Thanks! Yea, that’s all beyond me
I’m certain you could figure it out if you’re interested, but IMO there’s not much benefit to individual users running instances unless you want to gather a community.
Setting up an own instance of Lemmy got super easy using Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
I’m using Dynu for DDNS.
Thank you, but I hope you can understand that these steps are still very technical for someone who doesn’t do this work otherwise
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git clone github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
cd ./Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
git checkout $(git describe --tags git rev-list --tags --max-count=1)
cp ./config.env.example ./config.env
./deploy.sh
phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com 1 year ago
some instances let anyone create their own community (lemmy equivalent of subreddit)
I’d recommend tech experience before setting up your own lemmy server ( instance); the internet is a hostile place with random pcs poking servers 24/7
ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 year ago
I’ll second this for the most part. Once you get the basic framework of a docker host set up it’s pretty simple with only a couple containers holding it up so if you can understand the workings of virtual machines/containers it’s pretty ‘easy’ to set up. That said, an ugly XSS vulnerability has been out there causing problems and as a whole it’s very much an unpolished product so there’s a lot of work in understanding ‘why the heck is it doing this now??’ things.
snowyday@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thank you, I guess I’ll need to look for an instance that lets people set up their own communities
Any recommendations?
lemmy@endlesstalk.org 1 year ago
I’ll recommend my own instance at endlesstalk.org. There you can create a community, if you want. lemm.ee or sh.itjust.works might also allow creating of new communities, but I haven’t checked.
macarthur_park@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It looks like you’re on lemmy.world. That instance let’s you create communities. If you’re viewing the site in your browser, tap the hamburger menu on the top right (3 horizontal lines) and select “Create Community”.
macarthur_park@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It looks like you’re on lemmy.world. That instance let’s you create communities. If you’re viewing the site in your browser, tap the hamburger menu on the top right (3 horizontal lines) and select “Create Community”.