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

I want to self-host but don't know how to code etc so not sure where to even start

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you are wanting to self-host outside of your home-lab and use a VPS, it is pretty simple. Ubergeek77 has compiled a docker image to easily install it all in like 5 steps. Take a look, https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

#Lemmy-Easy-Deploy @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you self host a community how would anyone find it?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh my god, I laughed so loudly that I had to explain this comic to my wife. She thought I'm dying already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah... it is kinda hypocritical for this community to be based on .world, haha. There are plenty of people here running instances, who wants to volunteer as tribute and to sign up to be on call?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it's self-hosting, right. We each host our own server with our own self-hosting community. Alone. No other posters, commenters, or voters. Just each of us in isolation talking to ourselves about our hosting setup.

This is a dumb meme, there's no such thing as self-hosting a community. A community only becomes valuable when you share it beyond the hoster, at which point it stops being self-hosted for most community-members. I believe Ruud did actually create this community, which means it is properly self-hosted as much as a successful community can be.

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