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First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Nice! Just me on my instance too. The only downside I've found so far is that I have to discover new communities in my own since there is no one else to populate "All".

Small price to pay to have control over my instance though.

[–] Darkbug 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm really thinking about spinning up my own instant. I joined lemmy.one a while ago and it dark at the moment. After reddit I'm not digging the lack of control... Do you have any recommendations for running your own instant?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I host it on a VPS since I was hesitant about having something like this hosted at home. As far as spinning it up, it was relatively straightforward using the docker instructions (https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html).

I ran into some issues with the postfix container not being able to send emails, but it turned out I just needed to ask my VPS provider to unblock port 25 for SMTP.

[–] Darkbug 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the link. I may try hosting it at home just for kicks.

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