28, he/him. interested in all things tech, music production, and gaming. i write songs your girlfriend would probably listen to.
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.
Hello from a third self hosted instance comrads!
Check out Cloudflare, with a D. It’s free and does exactly what you want.
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Lemmy for Yunohost is still running Lemmy version 0.16.7, which does not support phone applications (Connect, wefwef, etc). It also doesn’t support photo uploads of any kind. Until these two issues are resolved I cannot recommend it.
I referenced Google domains because that’s what a lot of people are currently using. I thought about not mentioning it but it doesn’t really matter which registrar you’re using at the end of the day.
I chose Debian 11 for stability and compatibility with other user friendly hosting options, such as Yuno Host. As far as I’m aware, Yuno does not currently support 12 yet. (I don’t recommend installing Lemmy through YH as it’s on an ancient version and doesn’t support photo uploads nor phone apps)
You do not need to use a static IP with cloudflare as long as you use ‘localhost’ instead of 192.xxx.x.xx because cloudflared (the cloudflare tunnel software) runs on the server locally, and can detect changes in IP.
I’ll probably add screenshots if I get a second request for them. Screenshots require performing the actions proper and I didn’t have a test environment ready when I wrote this. Might make a video and add screenshots from that, we’ll see.
I found your suggestions incredibly helpful! Thank you for taking the time to share them with me!
As far as my understanding goes, the traffic between your server and cloudflare is unencrypted. If that bothers you, definitely do not use this solution.
It is possible to encrypt your traffic server side as well, I simply do not know how to accomplish this.
Yes. Easy deploy deploys a Lemmy server just like all the other methods. Easy deploy is just easier.
I will consider, thank you!
Let me know if you run into any problems! My goal is for this to be the go-to guide for beginners, so any mistakes at the beginning I’d love to buff out! Cheers.
Should work fine, just install Debian itself to the thumbdrive.
Same thing happened to me last week, I’m new to this as well! Just a heads up, if you’re trying to run a Lemmy instance through Yuno, their version is out of date, and doesn’t support photo uploads or mobile apps :(
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I spent days trying to go from 0-100 figuring out the technical stuff and was making myself very stressed out and upset. I decided to just go to Yunohost and it just made things dead simple and in retrospect, enjoyable.
When I’m ready to learn I’ll spin up a new server and try to implement the same services the “hard” way, but for now I’ll continue to enjoy all the benefits of self hosted with a dead simple solution for implementing it. Don’t let e-peens get you down.
If you’re super new to all of this, check out Yunohost. You can either run it on Debian 11 or use their own OS image. Its a simple UI interface and makes apps deployable with one click. Doesn’t support everything but I have this running beside my docker just because it’s so dang easy to use and maintain.
I’ve been running around Lemmy trying to get new people to use this. This script is awesome and saved me so much time.
Yes, since Easy Deploy deploys using the docker container, lemmy will show up as a stack in portainer, just with limited editability
If you’re looking to set up a server quickly and easily, check out Lemmy Easy Deploy by ubergeek77. Just change the host name to your domain name in the config file and you’re good to go.
If you’re trying to access your home server from the internet, I recommend a cloudflare tunnel. Let me know if you need assistance! My dms are open
Yeah, but you’d lose out on being able to have a profile banner/photo.