You got it. Please feel free to share it around! So happy to hear it helped at least one person.

First success story!!! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions, as I’m still learning myself and really enjoy sharing what I’ve learned.

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

Well, time to start teaching myself how to create a docker container. Forking will be no issue, but creating the container will be completely new grounds for me. Thanks for the new project idea!

Yeah, but you’d lose out on being able to have a profile banner/photo.

Yeah pretty much.

It only pulls from communities you have subscribed to. Images aren’t duplicated per server, just text; so even if you find something nasty it’s not hosted by you and you can always delete comments from the database/block users from appearing in your instance.

Hello from a third self hosted instance comrads!

Check out Cloudflare, with a D. It’s free and does exactly what you want.

Yes. Easy deploy deploys a Lemmy server just like all the other methods. Easy deploy is just easier.

Updated, thank you!

Should work fine, just install Debian itself to the thumbdrive.

Same thing happened to me last week, I’m new to this as well! Just a heads up, if you’re trying to run a Lemmy instance through Yuno, their version is out of date, and doesn’t support photo uploads or mobile apps :(

Leave out the ’ ’

I spent days trying to go from 0-100 figuring out the technical stuff and was making myself very stressed out and upset. I decided to just go to Yunohost and it just made things dead simple and in retrospect, enjoyable.

When I’m ready to learn I’ll spin up a new server and try to implement the same services the “hard” way, but for now I’ll continue to enjoy all the benefits of self hosted with a dead simple solution for implementing it. Don’t let e-peens get you down.

Ugh, take my upvote.

This is so relatable it hurts. If this were reddit I’d give you gold.

If you’re super new to all of this, check out Yunohost. You can either run it on Debian 11 or use their own OS image. Its a simple UI interface and makes apps deployable with one click. Doesn’t support everything but I have this running beside my docker just because it’s so dang easy to use and maintain.

I’ve been running around Lemmy trying to get new people to use this. This script is awesome and saved me so much time.

Yes, since Easy Deploy deploys using the docker container, lemmy will show up as a stack in portainer, just with limited editability

If you’re looking to set up a server quickly and easily, check out Lemmy Easy Deploy by ubergeek77. Just change the host name to your domain name in the config file and you’re good to go.

If you’re trying to access your home server from the internet, I recommend a cloudflare tunnel. Let me know if you need assistance! My dms are open