I stood up an instance on linode for myself and a couple friends.

We’re lolimbeer.com !

Which is based on an old meme that I still find hilarious.

But, then I got a registration application that was excited about “lolis & beer”.

I still like the domain and I’ve had it sitting around for a minute, but i never really thought about it or read it that way before.

Hello from onlylans.io

Also on kubernetes, hopefully this message works. First time testing from my self-hosted instance.

biglemmowski.win/

Just two dudes here haha

My instance has 2 users. The domain name is endlesstalk.org

I host it on a k3s cluster with 2 nodes.

https://lemmings.basic-domain.com (basic-domain.com since I already had it) lemmings because I loved that game, and it had a "lemmy" touch to it

Well... Mine was once 1~5 users 😅 It's selfhosted on my own hardware.

https://sedd.it

lemmy.nrd.li - The domain is pronounced Nerd-ly. I welcome anyone that considers themself a nerd and any community someone feels like being nerdy about.

I also have like 20+ others domains... Most of which are unused... I may have a problem.

I run lemmyverse.org.

I created dis.ney.ink to try to be the Lemmy version of the Disney subreddits (such as r/dvcmember and r/waltdisneyworld) ... so far there's 3 users and ~9 subscribers

I started with fbxl.net, the domain I've owned forever. It started with social.fbxl.net, then video.fbxl.net, then lotide.fbxl.net, and now lemmy.fbxl.net. I've also got a matrix home server and a nostr relay.

If there's a piece of advice I can give you, it's to plan to self host more than just one thing. Once you have one thing, you're going to find out it's kind of addictive having your own thing to go to and you might want to host other things. Subdomains are a nice way to give you that chance.

https://outpost.zeuslink.net

I started a habit a while back ago of naming any servers I run based off of names from Greek mythology - my primary server is Zeus but most forms of just "Zeus" in domain form are already taken. Similarly, I call the quasi-internal network that this server runs (since it's a hypervisor) "ZeusNet"...

Problem with that name is "ZeusNet.net" is redundant and would irk me, I wanted something that still ends with the .net TLD (though my personal domain ends with .network).

This, zeuslink.net is what I came up with given that "link" can mean "network" and the combination isn't as redundant as "...net.net"!

Funnily enough, originally my instance was originally under the colony subdomain which I quite liked... But unfortunately I didn't set things up properly due to how I have everything else setup, and I had already dipped just enough in the federation that when I reset everything so that it actually worked properly, the keys that my server identified with no longer matched which broke my ability to federate properly. Which then forced me to reset everything again under a completely different subdomain (I'm glad it was on a subdomain instead of the root domain for that reason) since Lemmy doesn't have a "self destruct" option like Mastodon has (which tells all connected instances "Hey, I'm going down - forget you knew me" as far as I understand it).

And that is the origin story of my domain, along with the subdomain. Thinking about it now, I should copy all of this as a standalone post on my instance 😅

fl0w.cc- single user; the domain is meant to be part of my username :)

I don't host lemmy (yet) but my domain is zyphr.xyz, I wanted zephry.xyz but it was taken.

Wish I had looked at other options before choosing to be honest.

Three users @borg.chat I was hoping to get established sooner but 0.17 gave me endless trouble that I was never able to resolve.

https://group.lt

https://leddit.danmark.party, because it's running a bot named Leddit that pulls content from Reddit. And, uh, Denmark Party, because I love Denmark and I thought it would be really funny to own a domain named this. I also wanted to split my serious and silly projects into different domains, so I bought this extra domain and use it for all of my silly projects now.

(Not posting directly from that instance so I can leave the bot in peace, but federation definitely works because posts from it are getting through to other instances)

jemmy.jeena.net is a subdomain because under the main domain is my own website.

Howdy! Just me over here… 👍

Started like 20 minutes ago, currently kinda getting created.

New instance less than 20 people ATM. If you can't see it from the username it is Kerala.party

My instance has a couple users currently lol

Hello. I run coeus.sbs

It hasn't been running long and it will evolve over time. I have a community called !green@coeus.sbs for posting images of green things.

Hi

I have no.lastname.nz 31 'users' but 20 are bots that have been banned

Mine, though it says 202 users, is only actually 2, me and a test account, cause it got botted due to me leaving open registration. Luckily found out about 10 seconds after it started, but still, annoying. Though yea, just myself on here for now. :D

https://lemmy.socdojo.com because I'm not creative with names and just tacked it onto everything else on my lab/domain. The 'socdojo' part came from my first IT job where the T2/SOC referred to their little cave as the 'socdojo' aka a training ground for the soc newbs.

Self-hosting lemmy.blue!

I have a few but my main one is https://nick.geek.nz followed by https://nickwebster.dev which currently just had a redirect, some email stuff, and this Lemmy instance.

I was surprised nobody'd thoughr of this domain before. feditown.com

l.dustybeer.com

I'm the only one here.

rlyeh.icu

https://forum.stellarcastle.net on kubernetes (microk8s)