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Some of my favorite communities are in the instances that Beehaw defederated from. However the instance I use chooses to federate with everyone so I can see everything from everywhere.
I decided to self-host my own instance for that reason. That way I'm actually totally in control of what I'm seeing. It does make finding new communities less organic, but it's easy enough with the new listing tools. Probably not worth the money if all I ran on my server was Lemmy, but as an added service it's great.
How much does it cost?
I do have a homelab and could easily self-host a personal Lemmy instance if I wanted. But I'm not sure if it's worth the effort.
The ansible install on ubuntu wasn't too bad, tbh. I haven't touched anything backend since I installed, and it's been chugging!
Yeah but if you have existing services I definitely wouldn't use the ansible install
Oh for sure--I just spun up a new droplet to throw it on. There are Docker instructions as well.
I selfhost several things for personal/family use on my own hardware. I couldn't get Lemmy working behind Traefik which is what I use as a reverse proxy.
So I decided to go get a cheap VPS, and since it was kinda overkill for a one person Lemmy instance, and the fact that it wasn't on my home network, I decided I might as well let other people use it too. I'll probably cap user count at some point if necessary unless I could get donations to cover higher costs.
And anyway I think even a one person instance on a home network was probably a bad idea. I expose some of my services through a reverse proxy but they're not advertised or known to the public like Lemmy would be, federating and plastering my URL next to all of my comments.
Would be an interesting idea to fork and do a 'Lemmy Lite' which is just a single-person instance, doesn't host any communities, but lets you join communities/federate with them the same way a full install does.
Yeah it seems simple enough. But even for a single instance user the would be many things to figure out, such as how to federate with other instances.
The biggest issue for me is the way that federation works is not really designed for self hosting. Self hosting means you manually have to search out and add outside communities.
How easy was it to get up and running? I’d want to spin it up on my docker host and me be the only user
Same here! It's nice to get the best of both worlds