I tried earlier today and I had no luck actually getting an instance running
It would help if the explanation was specific to a raspberry pi
Do yourself a favour and don’t host it, yet. Lemmy is not quality software. You have 3 options here:
- pay someone to take care of it for you
- learn more about computer management and computers in general, first; then host it
- ignore the first two options, which will inevitably lead to your instance crashing and burning
Best of luck!
Crashing and burning would be similar to most my other projects
I mean… You’d learn so much. Crash and burn maybe, but call it a win for all the knowledge you gain in the process.
Crashing and burning (in a non-production environment) is an excellent motivator to develop necessary skills; being unafraid to break things and fix them when they inevitably break helps you get a deeper understanding of how the systems work, for what it’s worth.
And crashing and burning in a production environment is an excellent thing to laugh at in 20 years
As a self taught self-hosting enthusiast i wouldn’t recommend ansible to a beginner. I know that sounds backwards as absible makes everything easy and does all the work for you but that’s also part of the problem. It would be like jumping behind the wheel of a self driving car without knowing how to drive at all. When (not if) something goes wrong it could go wrong hard and you’d lose the whole instance.
It’s better to start with some other self hosted projects that interest you to get a feel for the process and software like docker then work your way up to bigger things like lemmy. I consider myself fairly versed in the process and lemmy still gave me some issues to set up and my pixelfed instance still won’t federate despite my best efforts. I’m pretty sure i know the issue, i just need to get around to fixing it.
Last thought, the raspberry pi is a pretty impressive little pc for it’s size and price point but you might find yourself quickly burning through resources depending on the number of active users you have and how heavily you use it.
I agree completely with self hosting lemmy for a beginner. But disagree completely about ansible.
Learning to script your environment is extremely useful for stability, maintainability, and security.
Could you give somd examples of something to selfhost? I am only really aware of selfhosting lemmy and other fediverse stuff
You could set up a dns based ad-blocker like pihole and a vpn like wireguard to tunnel your phone back into your home network so you have ad-blocking on the go, too. That’s a semi beginner protect with plenty of tutorials to pick from.
You could run nextcloud, syncthing, or immich to make your own cloud at home but that might need more than a basic pi setup.
I actually set up pihole today!
It’s a great software to run. I like to watch youtube tutorials that explain things step by step so i can understand what happens. If i find a good video i’ll see what other software that channel may have a tutorial on and if that software may interest me.
Find some nerd and offer him feet pics to do it for you. Thats how I handle most of life’s problems.
Alternatively, if you are artistically talented, offer to draw them yiff in exchange for tech help. Humans are so 1990s.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 2 acronyms.
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