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Hey. I really like the idea of the fediverse and Lemmy and would want to know as a beginner/not so experienced regarding selfhosting what would be the best way to get started? I saw there are vps options, but don't know of I'm looking in the right direction.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What I'm curious about is running a server only for myself. Am I gonna have problems with being defederated? I'm wanting to run Matrix right next to it on the same domain but they seem much more open to the concept of personal servers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

it's alright, i run a personal server with closed registrations. looking for new communities is a bit glitchy, you might need to search a few times before it appears.

e: one thing i have to note is that docker-related documentation is somewhat inaccurate and, in my opinion, their setup is a bit overcomplicated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Using their docker set up as well and I thought it was quite lean. Out of curiosity, what do you think is overcomplicated about it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've followed the official guide on how to set it up using docker. I had to tweak the compose file in a way it was not mentioned in the docs. Also I have an already set up nginx web server and while I was able to set up a reverse proxy vhost to the reverse proxy that was defined in the compose I wasn't able to get websocket working. I thought of removing the proxy entirely from the compose file and configure the "main" nginx server for lemmy, I just gave up and removed everything because I felt like it doesn't worth the time.

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