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?

  • livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.comEnglish
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    1 year 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)