Hello, I want to self host an instance so I’m only beholden to myself and the military forces that watch all. I only have one rule, and don’t care much for moat things, but I’d like to create safe and friendly place for people like me
I would advise against it.
- Lemmy can act in mysterious ways
- Lemmy’s database can act in mysterious ways
- You don’t sound like you know how computers work
- The above is necessary to have any reasonable uptime.
Let’s also add
- you need to have 24/7 moderation capabilities to filter all the child porn that trolls will immediately try to spread onto your instance
That is actually somewhat less of an issue now that bans and content removal are federating. Kbin is the easiest to abuse at the moment, but, luckily, there aren’t many instances of it.
“Less” is still not “gone” unfortunately. You do still have to be very vigilant because federation from unknown instances intentionally spreading that stuff can and will end up getting garbage on to your server’s hard drive that you might not even notice.
Ifyou selfhost only for yourself it’s easy pickings though, and something I recommend as a start.
Yes, it’s possible. It requires some knowledge in server administration though, you can find the specifics at the Lemmy GitHub page.
Tyty, will do
get vps account, clone repo, configure server, configure domain. profit?
Thanks! What’s clone repo mean tho? I generally use vpn, I think that should be default systems globally if humans get shit together
If this is your level of experience, I would heavily caution against running an instance.
