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Promotion of other Lemmy instances (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by spaghetti_carbanana@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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Hi beehaw admins! Thanks for this platform you’ve given us all. I’m wondering what your stance is on promotion of other Lemmy instances here?

In the interest of decentralisation and keeping the community robust, I’m considering standing up my own instance of Lemmy. I’m fortunate enough to have plenty of equipment at my disposal to run it and the know-how to make it resilient and scalable (not quite big social network tier, but I don’t want it to be that anyway).

I just wanted to ask here first before I go shamelessly self-plugging around the place.

Feel free to ask questions if you’re curious or your answer is “it depends”. Thanks!

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[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just a curious passerby, but how hard is it to set up an instance? Is it "switching to Linux mint" easy, more "arch goes brrrr" difficult, or "keep away before you break everything" difficult?

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the Docker/Ansible is pretty easy but the DIY option is not. There were a couple of people who were trying to document the DIY process but the last I heard was that they were both stuck.

[–] spaghetti_carbanana@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is my understanding as well, though I believe the manual route is "not recommended" as far as the Lemmy documentation goes and Ansible/Docker are the preferred ways.

At the moment I'm trying to work out how to scale it horizontally (add more nodes) instead of vertically (make the one node bigger) as there's diminishing returns on the latter method but the documentation doesn't mention whether the "scale" option in Docker Compose is usable. That said it's early days and I've only just started looking into it 😊

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