I launched mine using the lemmy-ansible repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible It's quite straight forward to follow and works out of the box without much effort required, good luck!

Hi! First comment on Lemmy (or any social media.) I run bubblesthebunny.com off this repo: https://github.com/BubblesTheBunny/lemmy

It requires Digital Ocean and Cloudflare, but it works pretty well. I use a pretty small VM though, so if you're looking for something that can handle 1000s of users you'll need to modify it slightly.

I yoinked a ton from the https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible repo, so if you want to roll your own that's a good place to start.

The documentation should answer most of your questions.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html

Welcome, fellow refugee. I'm only lurking in these topics out of interest, I'm not in a position to host.

But you might find these communities interesting:

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They are all about self hosting in general, not self hosting lemmy specifically. But lemmy is a topic among others. The last comm seems to be about specifically self hosting lemmy, but has no content (yet) from my point of view. Which I find sad, as I'm also mostly interested in self hosting lemmy as a topic.

There is a docker install guide in the docs.

Officially https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html

There is also this https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/tree/main

I rolled my own docker-compose.yml because I host other services using Caddy as well