Are there any gotchyas to running a Lemmy Instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by zombie_kong@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I stood up a Yunohost and installed Mastodon a few months back. I had issues with storage and exponential growth as a result of federating with other instances.

It was just too much work keeping the storage at a minimal level for a single user instance, so I ditched it.

Is there anything like that I need to consider before I try my hand at Lemmy?

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[-] livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

These things hurt me while setting up my Lemmy instance on my Raspberry Pi 4 via Docker.

The instance name must be less than or equal to 20 characters in length (database limit)
The lemmy and lemmy-ui docker images must be arm64 (for my Ubuntu 22.04 setup on my RaspberryPi)
The certbot image needs to be added to the docker-compose from the docker install instructions and "depend_on" the nginx image
I needed to disable the 80->443 redirect in my nginx config in order to get my initial cert (maybe there's another way)
The lemmy container needs its own network to allow it to access the internet (permitting searching)

this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023

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