I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.
The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.
While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.
It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.
I haven’t checked but are kbin instances easier to spin up? Kbin is be able to communicate with Lemmy communities without a problem.
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It’s easy from the docker from what I can tell, the bare metal / vps is a bit more as more manual pieces but nothing too crazy. I just submitted a pull request for the admin guide so that should help a bit for less head bashing… Though my instance doesn’t seem to be federating so that’s a new problem for tomorrow.
My two cents, I had a wobbly Lemmy instance setup that couldn’t do HTTPS, federation, and stay stable all at once. It was always 1 or 2 of those 3 at best.
Switched my instance to kbin, which took about a half hour of CLI and after that has been a joy. It’s just younger and admittedly less feature packed right now.