It’s lemmygrad, we’re the spectre. I’d bet at least half of the other instances out there block us, there’s only like 300 dedicated users on this instance, and they still can’t stop complaining about lemmygrad/tankies
It’s lemmygrad, we’re the spectre. I’d bet at least half of the other instances out there block us, there’s only like 300 dedicated users on this instance, and they still can’t stop complaining about lemmygrad/tankies
And all their users don’t realise that the reason those censoring instances look more like Reddit is because Reddit had a campaign to censor all radical speech. It’s not rare because radical speech isn’t popular, it’s rare because it’s hidden and crushed.
Would you talk me briefly through setting up your own instance? Do you just run it when you want to go online or do you need to stay connected with a 24/7 self-hosted server? Don’t answer these questions if it means sharing details that would compromise your security.
Yeah, reminds me of posting in r/socialism101. Got a bunch of responses in from communists but my being able to see them and associated notifications were very delayed, indicating Reddit gave some kind of hidden shadow ban on their posts and the mods were manually approving them.
Late ass reply, sorry! I just now have finished tweaking my config to my liking.
I purchased a VPS and a domain name - I run it 24/7 on that server. The VPS is about $10 a month. If Lemmy optimized its db queries a little bit I bet I could get away with hosting it on a $5 a month server, though.
On that server, I’m running the Lemmy Docker container. There are some docs here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html The docs are a little light on the env variable configuration though… there were some settings I had to hunt to find.
I am using Caddy as a reverse proxy: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/caddy.html
Caddy takes care of https automagically with Let’s Encrypt.
All in all, it is a pretty simple setup. I don’t know the security profile of Lemmy so I don’t host anything worthwhile on this server in case it gets compromised, just Lemmy.
if you ever take a stab at it, I’d be happy to help answer questions. I am not sure if there is a dedicated community somewhere in the Fediverse for Lemmy selfhosting discussion.