I made a guide on how to go from zero to hero: Self hosting a lemmy server. All you need is an old pc, a thumb drive, and some time.
Please let me know if there are errors. This is the first draft. Thank you!!!
Have you considered using Yunohost instead? I think it would let you skip a few steps?
Lemmy for Yunohost is still running Lemmy version 0.16.7, which does not support phone applications (Connect, wefwef, etc). It also doesn’t support photo uploads of any kind. Until these two issues are resolved I cannot recommend it.
Ah, I didn’t know that. Seems like they would need to find a volunteer to maintain that.