• ThatGuyFromWork@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Actually an instance dedicated to self hosted stuff would be great. We could have communities specifically for things like home lab, media hosting (Plex, Jellyfin, Emby), unRAID, TrueNAS, shit posting, hardware discussions, general conversations, etc.

    This would reduce the strain on lemmy.world and give us all a dedicated home for more niche topics without posts getting buried

  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Considering how overloaded lemmy.world is right now, a pi in someone’s basement would be better, and besides, centralization is bad. Federation is what prevents lemmy from becoming the next Twitter.

  • LessQuit@feddit.nuEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I want to self-host but don’t know how to code etc so not sure where to even start

    • mim@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Never self-hosted Lemmy, but have self-hosted other things in the past. While you don’t necessarily need to code, you need a fair amount of code-adjacent skills. If you ever want to get into self-hosting, you should have a look into (at least):

      • the linux command line
      • ssh
      • how ports work
      • VPS providers
      • DNS registrars
      • nginx
      • docker (while you don’t need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)
      • tool@r.rosettast0ned.comEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        docker (while you don’t need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)

        …until you have a single extra space character hiding 20 lines into your compose file and the whole thing falls over the next time you try to bring the containers up.

        Lint your code and configs every time!

        • Opeth@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Xml wasn’t great but yaml is 2 steps backwards

          Edit: tfw 3months ago

      • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Now it’s full of people who aren’t hosting it and it’s not self-hosted for them anymore.

        The idea of a self-hosted community is meaningless. It has to attract people other than the hoster to be useful.

  • LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.netEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’m hosting one right now. Lemmyunchained.net

    But in will have to Limit Users at some point.

    I dont Think people properly understand they can be on any server. And join multiple communities. And it all Show up in their Feed. They don’t Need to worry about “which community has the Most Users”

    • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      In practice right now it can be a bit schetchy tbh. Finding and subscribing to them is flakey and searching can be a bit hit and miss too.

      When it does all work both smoothly and seemlessly then we’ll be golden.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Unless I am mistaken, when the instance you sign up with dies, so does your account? Obviously your content and potentially profile will exist in some state, but you would no longer be able to authenticate, so for all intents and purposes your account is gone.

      While that won’t matter for some, for others that means there is some importance in the decision of where you create your account. Since, once that instance decides to shut down (or if it happens to defederate,) your account goes with it.

  • SomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    In terms of an optimal load spread, it’s best if the lemmiverse is split into multiple equally sized instances. If you use an instance just for yourself, it doesn’t actually decrease the load on the main servers in any way. The only thing you get is a guarantee that your instance won’t suddenly go down.

  • abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I laughed but I dunno about you guys but I don’t publicly self host anything. If you can’t auth via ssh or VPN then you’re not accessing a damn thing from my home network. I’ve got multiple routers that I could set up some isolation with but it’s just too close to home.