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How difficult is it to apply these updates?
I was thinking of setting up a personal Lemmy instance, but the idea of getting it all set up and working, and then an update breaking things and my not having the advanced skill to fix it, worries me >.<
It's gradually improving but its 100% not ready for full production outside of enthusiasts who are willing and patient enough to take the time and effort to wrangle with its quirks. If you want to self host (especially as a single user) and aren't prepared to make vigorous backups and aren't extremely technical inclined/are a regular average user it's *really *not worth it right now. It likely will be in time, but there's a lot of issues with lemmy that need to be addressed. Thankfully the coming update will address some of its most serious though. It helps to be involved in the admin matrix community chats and generally accepting community assistance, but it's just far too much to keep on top of for most people. If I didn't have a community and mine was a single user instance, I 100% would have shut it down weeks ago and migrated over to a larger instance.
We need something more simple compatible with Lemmy for hobbyists and for those who don't want to be all day setting up things every time.
I also was thinking about my own personal instance, because I want to see everything federated and then choose what I don't want to see, but everybody's tutorial is different.
Man, I miss the good ol' times with "upload via FTP, run the "install.ext" file in a browser, setup database credentials and then you have it".
Fediverse needs single-user applications.
There are some in development! Gotosocial is very very single user friendly and easy to setup and so is writefreely. I do hope in time there is a "lemmy lite" version that has local communities disabled completely and more local user friendly settings. It likely will in time, but we will see.
I did mine in about 30 seconds. Most of that was just making a backup of my old one.
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