I want to self host my own lemmy instance for personal use. I have seen there Github page and it is really easy to set up but I have some questions?

  1. How will I be able to federate with other instances?
  2. Will I be able to interact with communities from other instances?
  3. What type of hardware will be required to self host?
  4. And finally is it worth to run our own instance?
  • @[email protected]English
    9•1 year ago

    It should federate automatically as long as you have it enabled. You won’t see anything in all until at least one person on your instance subscribes to communities.

    I used this script: https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

    I have mine running on a $6 vps from vultr, it doesn’t really need much power if you’re not hosting a lot of users and communities.