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Advice for now settled new Lemmy users. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] randomguy2323@lemmy.kevitprojects.com 9 points 1 year 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.

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

[-] falseteefs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

wasn't yunohost using an older version of Lemmy?

[-] randomguy2323@lemmy.kevitprojects.com 3 points 1 year ago

Its not always on the latest but its being really stable for me. I think they tested really throughly so thats why the updates are delayed but it just works.