I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.
The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.
While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.
It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.
Perhaps write a thread, with step-by-step text and photos/screenshots per platform? And then the next one to do would be a step-by-step video?
Example, I’m not technically minded, but have an Unraid box with a 1Gb connection. There are extra steps there that I’m aware of but have no idea how to do because it’s over my head.
A more detailed set up guide would be great! I feel like some details were missing from the Lemmy guide.
Here’s an example of how to build it from scratch. https://lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com/comment/7413
