With several Lemmy instances using the .ml TLD I’ve seen people mention others being risky as well. Which should be avoided?

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familyphotos.zip

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mysupersafe.app

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Monthlyreportsv2.zip

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.fan.

But seriously…

After spending all week installing Lemmy and trying to make it happy, I was losing my mind. I’ve finally got everything but pics working. I plan on troubleshooting it this weekend.

I’m being sarcastic, kind of. I wasn’t sure if I was going to stay a Lemmy fan amidst the painful set up - even with Docker compose and following all of the instructions, I was struggling to self-host it.

I am still a Lemmy fan and I understand that I should do less complaining and more contributing, so I am going to write up my experience getting it running once I get the pictrs stuff working. I love the federation and want to help it thrive.

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What did you install it on and with instructions did you use? I installed it on my Synology NAS, which took about 30 minutes using this guide. I was honestly impressed with how easy it was to install. https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-lemmy-on-your-synology-nas/

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Funny that you say that: my first problem was of my own making - I was using arm64 hardware and Lemmy doesn’t quite support that architecture yet, so I ended up getting a Synology myself this week. It’s awaiting disks and then I plan on moving Lemmy to that box.

Thanks for sharing that site - I’ll make good use of it once the drives get here.

The instructions worked out, but the troubleshooting steps need to be fleshed out more. Again, probably my issues, like DNS. I learned a lot though.

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I love my Synology NAS. It’s the DS920+. I’ve had it for a couple years. I upgraded the memory to 8 GB and use Portainer for a docket UI. I have 24 containers running on my NAS now, including sab, radarr, sonarr, deluge, joplin, piped/hyperpipe, youtubedl, jellyfin, pihole, and lemmy. 8gb of memory and about 45% used. Plex also runs as a native DSM package.

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This https://lemmy.world/post/1978767 was just posted a couple hours ago. It doesn’t seem to cover what you’re having trouble with, but it might be a good place to put what you’ve learned if they’re open to contributions.

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Thanks boss, I’ll check that out. Appreciate you sharing.

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I had trouble self hosting as well. Actually it was federation after the initial set up which was the problem. I gave up for now tho.

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Basically any 2-letter TLD should be avoided unless you live in that country.

If you want to be clever, use subdomains and pick one of the new TLDs. For instance, ban.anal.ink, is like $5.

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You could also choose a 5-10 digit .xyz domain, those cost $€0.85

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Except for the only one I’d want:

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Don’t be too sad, it wouldn’t work well with reverse-DNS notation anyway. ;)

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The first year. Then it’s likely $12/year.

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No, everything with the specified format is $0.99.

https://gen.xyz/cn/blog/1111b-sites

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Banana link or ban anal ink?

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As the admin of lemmy.inbutts.lol I would have thought my position on that subject would be clear.

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I can see why anal ink could be controversial.

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Just to add another concrete example, I saw a toot recently that .af may be risky, as some countries are beginning to implement embargoes; the person who had a domain there may be losing it soon

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.biz always seemed a bit sketchy. Would probably also avoid .nk

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The TLD for the DPRK is .kp, not .nk

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