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how does self hosting works

3 years ago by Fabrik872 to c/asklemmy

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Lets say i want to host my own instance of lemmy i will buy some domain and hosting server i will run an lemmy instance and then i can just start adding other instancies and post something on them or they also meeds to approve my instance?

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kevin 1 point 3 years ago

Most of the servers running lemmy have federation enabled and open (as you can see, I'm one of those self-hosted instances) and you can just interact with them. Some do have federation locked down, but that's the minority

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Scrath 1 point 3 years ago

Do you need a domain for a selfhosted instance? That sounds like something I would like to try but I've never opened anything selfhosted up to the internet

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kevin 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah you do, IPs don't work afaik and even if they did, many Fediverse servers don't support them so your compatibility would be abysmal

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