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If you want to host and manage your own Lemmy instance but are intimidated by the technical requirements, I can help! (lemmy.ml)
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I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.

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[–] Treevan@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps write a thread, with step-by-step text and photos/screenshots per platform? And then the next one to do would be a step-by-step video?

Example, I'm not technically minded, but have an Unraid box with a 1Gb connection. There are extra steps there that I'm aware of but have no idea how to do because it's over my head.

[–] SmugBedBug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A more detailed set up guide would be great! I feel like some details were missing from the Lemmy guide.

[–] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's an example of how to build it from scratch. https://lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com/comment/7413

[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

A couple of us have been detailing experience and problems with those instructions:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1165322

https://lemmy.ml/post/1160483

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