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.
There’s similar things for mastodon and a project currently in alpha/beta for multiple platforms, incl Lemmy, called spacehost.
See mastodon post here https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109905703584075719
See their main rep on the fediverse here: https://atomicpoet.org/users/atomicpoet and https://calckey.social/@atomicpoet (@atomicpoet@calckey.social @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org).
They also admin calckey.social.
