Hello, I want to self host an instance so I’m only beholden to myself and the military forces that watch all. I only have one rule, and don’t care much for moat things, but I’d like to create safe and friendly place for people like me

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    232·
    1 year ago

    I would advise against it.

    • Lemmy can act in mysterious ways
    • Lemmy’s database can act in mysterious ways
    • You don’t sound like you know how computers work
    • The above is necessary to have any reasonable uptime.
    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Let’s also add

      • you need to have 24/7 moderation capabilities to filter all the child porn that trolls will immediately try to spread onto your instance
      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        That is actually somewhat less of an issue now that bans and content removal are federating. Kbin is the easiest to abuse at the moment, but, luckily, there aren’t many instances of it.

        • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          “Less” is still not “gone” unfortunately. You do still have to be very vigilant because federation from unknown instances intentionally spreading that stuff can and will end up getting garbage on to your server’s hard drive that you might not even notice.

          • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            This would be my concern.

            As I understand it lemmy caches data from other instances you/your users utilize as part of federation which means it requires a fair bit of storage to operate and potentially sketchy data could be synced onto your hardware completely unbeknownst to you.

            And afaik you are still legally liable for it

      • Helaman@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Tyty! Yes I just want to get the hang of learning how this all works, it’s not a super sacred storage for my naked selfies

  • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Yes, it’s possible. It requires some knowledge in server administration though, you can find the specifics at the Lemmy GitHub page.

    • Helaman@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
      03·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! What’s clone repo mean tho? I generally use vpn, I think that should be default systems globally if humans get shit together

      • stown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s a feature of Git. Read up on git/GitHub before you try to tackle this.