Can I create an instance? What is needed?

Hello, I want to self host an instance so I'm only beholden to myself and the military forces that watch all. I only have one rule, and don't care much for moat things, but I'd like to create safe and friendly place for people like me

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I would advise against it.

Lemmy can act in mysterious ways

Lemmy's database can act in mysterious ways

You don't sound like you know how computers work

The above is necessary to have any reasonable uptime.
- Let's also add
  
  you need to have 24/7 moderation capabilities to filter all the child porn that trolls will immediately try to spread onto your instance
  
  That is actually somewhat less of an issue now that bans and content removal are federating. Kbin is the easiest to abuse at the moment, but, luckily, there aren't many instances of it.
  
  that's an exaggeration, i haven't had a moderation case like that on lemmy yet.
- Ifyou selfhost only for yourself it's easy pickings though, and something I recommend as a start.
  
  Tyty! Yes I just want to get the hang of learning how this all works, it's not a super sacred storage for my naked selfies
Yes, it's possible. It requires some knowledge in server administration though, you can find the specifics at the Lemmy GitHub page.
- TYTY
Tyty, will do
get vps account, clone repo, configure server, configure domain. profit?
- Thanks! What's clone repo mean tho? I generally use vpn, I think that should be default systems globally if humans get shit together
  
  If this is your level of experience, I would heavily caution against running an instance.
  
  It's a feature of Git. Read up on git/GitHub before you try to tackle this.

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