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

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What about letting people gather a community (on your server)?

    I mean the big instances will be “full” one day no? I love the decentralisation part of Lemmy too so that is partly why I’m trying to get a small server up and running.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, big instances don’t get full, they get just get bigger.

      I don’t want to discourage anyone from self hosting. It’s absolutely within anyone’s reach and could be a very rewarding pursuit. I would 100% encourage anyone to learn about self hosting in general. I also do not mean to imply that you or anyone else doesn’t have what it takes.

      That said, I’ve found my own self hosting efforts to be a little bit like a new puppy. It’s a big commitment and once the shine wears off it might be more of a responsibility than you bargained for. In my experience things do go wrong unexpectedly. When others are depending on you, you can find yourself in a situation where you have to put your life on hold for several hours trying to figure out what’s gone wrong.

      So in summary, it would be a cool thing to do but too much of a commitment for me.

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        1 year ago

        With full I meant the hardware is maxed out (or bandwidth).

        I haven’t yet really figured out how it all works, complexity-wise.

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          Yeah, I don’t really know for sure but I don’t think that’s a significant risk at present. IDK anything about lemmy’s architecture specifically but I would be surprised if even a large instance like world is approaching a hard limit.

          Cost will become a factor but even 1 in 1000 users donating $5 a month is probably enough to have a surplus.