A question about how the back end works (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by WamGams@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hey all,

Just a quick question for everybody, sorry if it is stupid. I have been on the Fediverse since the blackouts I probably should know this by now, but have clearly let things pass me by.

Basically, I want to buy a raspberry pi or a mini PC to run as a server. I would buy a domain name and use the website as sort of a private portal that I would do my posts from. I could upload videos to loops or a picture to pixelfed, make a microblog for Mastodon or have a long form blog.

My idea is that I would be the only person on the server and if somebody were to go to the url itself all they would see is the posts themselves in chronological form, but I would really not be wanting people to experience the site itself but rather the fediverse posts on their individual apps. The post having come from the site would rather be the authenticator that it is me who posted it.

Is something like this possible or would I essentially need multiple servers and domain names for each individual fediverse service?

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[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago

You can use a single domain and subdomains for each service. Once you start to host multi-services you will need more and more compute power and storage.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you will need multiple servers and domains... but you can host them on one physical device, and put them as subdomains on one purchased domain, e.g lemmy.wamgans.com, mastodon.wamgams.com, and so on.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

It would work but I personally don't think hosting a personal instance for the fediverse is that practical/safe given how dumb and harsh laws can be, when you don't have an army of lawyers/strong public support

I really like the EFF's article on this