Whether you are a Reddit refugee (I am one) or just randomly stumbled upon Lemmy and decided to join lemmy.world, welcome to the Fediverse.

If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.

We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.

  • randomguy2323@lemmy.kevitprojects.comEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Good advice or also just host your own instance will be a great way and its very simple to do that I feel anyone with some technical knowledge can do it by using Yunohost.

    1. Buy a domain using namecheap or cloudfare.
    2. Rent a VPS on Linode, Vultr , Digital Ocean or Hetzner
    3. Install Yunohost from the official website and be sure to install Debian 11 and not Ubuntu thats the one recommended by Yunohost developers.
    4. Once Yunohost is installed , set it up , add your domain , add a DNS record to point to the the server public IP.
    5. Now just installed Lemmy app from the Yunohost app store and thats it now you have your own lemmy instance.
    • AcornCarnage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for this! I just picked up a RPi4 and have been kicking it around trying to host a few applications and I’m just about to re-flash and start fresh. I’ll give Yunohost a shot tonight!

    • MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.winEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      My steps were:

      1. Sign up for free Google cloud VM instance
      2. Buy a $3 domain name from Cloudflare
      3. Install with Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
      4. Change Cloudflare to “Strict”
      5. Log in
        • MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.winEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Honestly, I don’t even know. It was in the advanced settings on Lemmy-Easy-Deploy and I missed it and spent like 2 hours troubleshooting until I saw that, lol.

          .win is a $3 domains on Cloudflare and shouldn’t have issues of being revoked (like .ml is going through and others could potentially face).

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      We got almost 20,000 instances I don’t think we need to push people to self hosting unless that’s something they specifically enjoy.