And another. Consider https://github.com/fmstrat/lcs and LPP. 😉

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If you host the instance just for your own account to be under your control there's hardly any overhead. I'm running it in docker in a debian 12 VM with 1 GB ram, 1 virtual CPU and 50GB virtual disk. Haven't had any issues.

If you do end up going for it, Lemmy Easy Deploy is the tool I used and it’s awesome. I had no success with any other guide.

It was pretty easy with that tool. The overhead isn’t too bad but I recommend not going below 2GB of memory. I rode along on 1GB for a little while to see how things went, and it topped out quite a bit. I pay a little extra for automatic backups too which is worth the peace of mind. It’s about ~$18/month with Digital Ocean.

I found this website to be pretty helpful in terms of walking you through a docker- based install:

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/...

The official docs are a little sparse at times.

Well, I couldn't figure out Docker because I'm a newb, so I decided to give the app in Yunohost a try. I was reluctant at first, because when I last checked the available version of Lemmy was kind of old and image uploads were broken. However, when I checked today, the version was 0.18.2 and the disclaimer about the broken feature was gone. So, I gave it a try and it just worked. I do still have to test image uploads.

We'll see about overhead. I've got it running on a VM to which I've allocated 500GB. The VM is on an older i5 desktop with 16GB of RAM. I've already been running a Pixelfed instance for a couple of weeks and so far so good.

It usually is.

Thank you; bookmarked.

Do you know how much disk space this will roughly use? Are we talking 10GB or 100GB or 1TB? Just roughly speaking.

Thank you for the info. I set my instance up yesterday as well and my goal today was to do this.

Just so you know, this also creates more load on other instances, especially the larger ones.

this is just a quick script I came up with, but it will show you newest communities and their descriptions. It refreshes daily. maybe it will be helpful for discovering niche communities : https://lemmyfind.quex.cc/

I'm really thinking about spinning up my own instant. I joined lemmy.one a while ago and it dark at the moment. After reddit I'm not digging the lack of control... Do you have any recommendations for running your own instant?

Yeah it was a bit annoying at first, but I just created a "all" user that just subbed to everything (well not everything, shout-out to all the communities that speak another language). I don't recall exact links but if you just search for "all bot Lemmy" there are some stuff people have made which will just auto join basically all communities in an instance

Hehe I needed a login for a Superbowl pool with my kid's preschool and that's what I came up with. When my wife saw she couldn't stop laughing, so it stuck.

Same.

I am running Yunohost, which made it very easy. However, I suspect that uploading images might (still) be broken.

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy might be the easiest way for selfhost

I will not ignore your comment, take that! Lol

I'm gonna respond so your server crashes. :p

Yes!

Hello from a third self hosted instance comrads!

Welcome from linz.city!

Did the v0.18.3 update of Lemmy really result in an 80% reduction in size in the PostgreSQL database? How did they manage to do it?

Shame, I was considering using them since the idea of having an instance with no community creation to save on bandwidth was an interesting concept and I needed to get out of lemmy.world because of its stability issues

❤️ not sure if they're chatting on matrix or not.

It only pulls from communities you have subscribed to. Images aren't duplicated per server, just text; so even if you find something nasty it's not hosted by you and you can always delete comments from the database/block users from appearing in your instance.

If you block porn-related instances suchas lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, you'll drastically reduce your chance of getting CSAM contents on your instance. Not saying those instances promotes that kind of stuff, but many dubious instances (the ones with kiddie/doll banners) federate with them, and might post bad stuff when the mods aren't looking.

If you're still super worried about it, you can host your instance behind cloudflare and enable their CSAM scanning tool.

I am not completely sure about the risks here, but I think as the sole user on my instance they are pretty low. I think the only way content gets onto my machine is if I post it, if I interact with content on other instances, or if I create a community to which other people from other instances start posting. Despite my handle, there are some crimes I don't do. I should be okay as long as I don't mess with illegal content myself and moderate accordingly others' behavior in my communities.

Yes. I have a residential connection with a dynamic IP, so the trick for me was to use an SMTP relay with a trustworthy provider. That said, I don't really use it.

I'm trying to use the provided email service from my website provider OVH, I have the setup ok (webmail works) but I can't set up Lemmy to use it :-/

I love sh.itjust.works!

Yeah, I definitely have a lot to learn in terms of self-hosting self-defense.

Why does Kirk climb a mountain?

Because it's there!

For fun, mostly.