I’m attempting to set up a self hosted instance so that I can control who I’m Federated with or not. Probably will just keep it open though, and I’d have to be a real asshole to get my instance defederated anywhere lmao.
Can you do us all a favor and blog about your experience setting this up and running it somewhere? I’ll follow you 👍
I was thinking about making my own Federated kbin-like server (writing the code from scratch) as an academic exercise. I’m a full stack developer and it’s the perfect thing to hone my non-embedded (full std) Rust skills and freshen my JavaScript skills.
I have several side projects going on at the moment (that I’ve been working on constantly for almost three years straight) and I need a mental break from that. I’d love to learn what’s a pain in the ass VS what’s good from a semi-layman’s perspective so I can make something better.
I’m currently running my own instance for this exact purpose, and have helped another user setup their public instance. It’s really quite simple! Just follow the instructions in the lemmy-ansible repo and the script should do most everything for you.
I’m running my instance from a Linode dedicated 2CPU 4GB RAM instance, where the friend I helped is running on a $5/mo 1CPU/2GB RAM Linode instance. Both are running Ubuntu 24.04LTS as I found that the newer non-LTS version has some issues out of the box.
I setup the credentials per the Ansible instructions and the script did the rest for me.
