Can I create an instance? What is needed?
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.
"Less" is still not "gone" unfortunately. You do still have to be very vigilant because federation from unknown instances intentionally spreading that stuff can and will end up getting garbage on to your server's hard drive that you might not even notice.
This would be my concern.
As I understand it lemmy caches data from other instances you/your users utilize as part of federation which means it requires a fair bit of storage to operate and potentially sketchy data could be synced onto your hardware completely unbeknownst to you.
And afaik you are still legally liable for it
It depends on the country you're in I guess. In Germany, and other countries as well I guess, you're not liable for stuff others people post on your platform as long as you react to reports and actually remove that shit when it's brought to your attention. You don't have to look at your instances media folder 24/7
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