Ok, back to meme school for you
Lmao you beat me to pointing that out, he totally butchered the template
This is my favorite Star Trek episode, too. Ruined.
mic drop
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
Something like selfhost.edu/c/jellyfin or self.host is a great name too, if I was in the position to do it I would haha
Unfortunately, you can't get .edu domains without being a school
Someone already owns selfho.st, wonder when they are starting up the selfhosted Lemmy instance
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.
Literally just left lemmy.world because of how brutally slow it's been
Same
My favorite part is when it finally becomes somewhat less overloaded, and my instance gets flooded with a bunch of posts from there filling the entirety of my front page, and the second page...
I want to move to a selfhosted instance once I can migrate my account. Anyone knows if this feature will be implemented ?
I think it's far down on their list of things to do unfortunately.
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.
Suddenly going down seems to be a constant in my self hosted services though...
ayo gurl lemme go down on your stack
Bow chicka bow wow
If you use an instance just for yourself, it doesnāt actually decrease the load on the main servers in any way.
That's not completely true. Yeah, it still loads another server a bit, but the server-to-server federation traffic is much more lightweight than the client-to-server traffic that would be involved with you having an account on that server and accessing it that way.
But yeah, multiple, equally-sized communities on different instances is the ideal situation. The only sticky part right now is FOMO because you'd have to constantly watch for new SelfHosted communities and join them. Hopefully some frontend tools come along soon to make joining/managing multiple communities like that more streamlined.
Yes, ideally youād want to have a few large communties on each instance and not all topics with a single userbase on one. This not only decreases the load but also prevents scenarios in which a single admin starts to capsule their instance with a large userbase away from the federation.
I wanna self-host my own instance so I have more control over my data.
I'm going to self host my own instance so I can have a cool username
Yes, but we're currently evolving into a situation where everything is centralized around Lemmy.world
Also the assurance that your home instance won't be suddenly federated from one of the major ones
As long as you don't let your instance become bot/nazi/tanky swarm, you are green..
Well, did you self host this meme?
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.
Inside the home even.
Can't get hacked if all your services are down because you can't get those cocksuckingmothershitbitchingassbastard routing tables right š¤Æ
The connection is coming from INSIDE THE
houseINSTANCE!
Me having everything open: Come here mother***s I am waiting for all of you.
VPNs? Cloudfare? Cloudfare Tunnels? Tailscale? What's all that? Here we are fighters not pus***s.
(Just kidding about the previos comments haha, well I have it open but it's not on my home network... so slightly less problematic and tbh I am planning on closing some stuff, plus all is behind logins, and tbh I kind of like to be able to access to it from anywhere/any computer without having to use any special connection)
Well, now I'm worried about my security. I have an ngrok tunnel running inside a container on a raspberry pi. Do I need to worry about my other devices or if someone tries to attack me only the container is affected?
Do you trust yourself to sustain this considerable commitment?
This meme template NEVER gets old, lmao.... Anakin's face always gets me
Iām 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 donāt Need to worry about āwhich community has the Most Usersā
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.
It doesnāt quite all show up the feed no matter what instance someone is on. In order for content to federate on an instance someone on that instance has to directly access it. I think this is why small niche instances appear to have a trickle of content on āallā.
There is a lemmy seed script you can use as an admin that gets you a "default sub" experience https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
Out of curiosity what has the disk usage growth looked like so far for your lemmy instance? I occasionally selfhost but I'm not a hardcore datahorder or anything so the replication of data from instances you subscribe to has me on the fence.
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 wonāt 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.
I've seen something like 8 comments pointing people towards their own servers.
Which essentially guarantees a level of community fragmentation as to prevent community growth, cohesive, or general activity does it not?
Ideally each community "group" would have their own Lemmy instance.
Yeh. Thereās a few servers that donut really well. Lemmy.nsfw is probably the best example I think.
just created an account on @lemm.ee bc of this š¤£
Eh, I guess I'm doing my part then š¤·
Shameless self-insert, if you want a new instance, try mine! https://lemmings.world, it's a general-purpose instance and everyone's welcome!
There is always: https://slrpnk.net/c/selfhosting 100% certified self-hosted from free-ranging servers š
I want to self-host but don't know how to code etc so not sure where to even start
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)
the linux command line
And for that, I recommend Linux Journey. They have some resources on networking too!
If you are wanting to self-host outside of your home-lab and use a VPS, it is pretty simple. Ubergeek77 has compiled a docker image to easily install it all in like 5 steps. Take a look, https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
#Lemmy-Easy-Deploy @[email protected]
Oh my god, I laughed so loudly that I had to explain this comic to my wife. She thought I'm dying already.
If you self host a community how would anyone find it?
post it in New Communities and also it should show in Lemmy Explorer
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.
Yeah... it is kinda hypocritical for this community to be based on .world, haha. There are plenty of people here running instances, who wants to volunteer as tribute and to sign up to be on call?
Well, it's self-hosting, right. We each host our own server with our own self-hosting community. Alone. No other posters, commenters, or voters. Just each of us in isolation talking to ourselves about our hosting setup.
This is a dumb meme, there's no such thing as self-hosting a community. A community only becomes valuable when you share it beyond the hoster, at which point it stops being self-hosted for most community-members. I believe Ruud did actually create this community, which means it is properly self-hosted as much as a successful community can be.
It is, but it's also on a server that's crippled by load. Each community having an instance makes sense as far as load goes.
the guy selfhosting lemmy.world, is also the guy that made this community. nothing hypocritical about that.
I've got business fiber, redundant networking, power, storage, and servers! With a bunch of compute sitting offline atm. Would be willing to give it a shot š¤
Needs monitoring though.
Also blame the reddit mods for it.
I registered/setup https://selfhosted.forum and I wanted to give it to any of the current mods. They passed because their idea of "we have a lemmy community already" is pointing to lemmy.ml
