I’m a nerd but not to the point I’m ready to install my own servers.

Is there a way for folks like me to set up and run a Lemmy, or is that reserved for the technical experts?

On the old site, I think one of the unspoken benefits was that anyone could create and run a sun

  • snowyday@lemmy.worldOPB
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thank you, but I hope you can understand that these steps are still very technical for someone who doesn’t do this work otherwise

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    Install Docker if you don’t already have it

    https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/#server

    Clone the repo

    git clone https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

    Change into the directory

    cd ./Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

    Check out the latest tag

    git checkout $(git describe --tags git rev-list --tags --max-count=1)

    Copy config.env.example to config.env

    cp ./config.env.example ./config.env

    Make sure the DNS records for your domain point to your server

    Edit the config.env file, and at minimum, change LEMMY_HOSTNAME to be your domain. Then…

    Deploy!

    ./deploy.sh