you don't have to have an account on the same lemmy server to mod a community on it. The creator of the community can add anybody as a mod.
I recommend that you be very cautious when setting up anything that faces the internet - if there's a vulnerability in the OS or Lemmy app, there's a good chance it will be exploited and all federated server names are published, so you need to be prepared for that and not be devastated if your data gets stolen, wiped out or encrypted by ransomware. Back everything up regularly. If you have a personal system with any valuable data on it then I would stridently discourage you from installing Lemmy there. Use a very small dedicated server instance and give it a cute name. Lemmy runs fine for a few users on a single CPU with 1 GB of RAM. You will need around 8GB of storage initially - that's a bare minimum. This stuff might be covered in the install guides but this is from my own experience.
If you've never managed a public web server before I'm not sure that starting with Lemmy is ideal for learning, but then again, you won't learn anything by doing nothing - just be mindful about security of your own data and backing stuff up once you have the instance set up and you should be fine.
setting up the instance isn't complicated, particularly with ansible - the ansible install creates several docker containers, separating the database from the UI, etc. You approve all the sign ups so you can control who posts from the instance.
Since Lemmy is a public system, I wouldn't host it on a server where I had any important or confidential info stored. There is nothing wrong with setting it up as lemmy.yourdomain.com or anything.yourdomain.com - the domain name itself doesn't really matter - and lemmy isn't holding state secrets so just keep your own stuff secure - which starts with installing it on a system that isn't shared with anything else - and make sure the only ports open to the web server are 80 and 443 (80 is needed for letsencrypt to issue a certificate)
If you're not familiar with docker and hosting a public web site, it may be a little tricky but if you go the ansible route (all of my experience is on Linux - I have no idea about Windows), it's pretty straightforward and intuitive. If you get stuck, post and somebody will probably be able to help - you can also DM me if you have questions that you don't want to ask on the forum.
If you want to experiment with the set up, it is possible to install it on your home network as a sandbox, but if your ISP blocks port 80, you won't be able to use letsenrypt to get a cert - so just comment those lines out of the ansible playbook and generate a self-signed certificate after the install and use that instead. That way you can go through the process of setting up the lemmy instance without putting it on an internet facing-server so you can get comfortable with how it works - the install of my dev system on the home network was pretty straightforward and it can read everything from the fediverse, it just can't post anything. Lemmy admin is very basic so I encourage you to have a go.
I think what will happen is that the majority returns to Reddit and a few (like myself) will stay here, just out of principle.
That's cool. People with principles are preferred.
If Mallinckrodt files a second bankruptcy, payouts would likely go first to company executives, staff and other creditors, with opioid-related claims paid out last.
so, business as usual then.
I hear ya.
I get mad vs sad, but I'm not sure that's any better, frankly.
r/dankmemes - showing on reddit's homepage - but the post time is 17 hours ago...
Reddit shouldn’t continue to benefit from my posts if they’re going to be greedy assholes like this.
Sad to say but my guess would be your old content is already feeding synthesized answers via ChatGPT. Just as any art work online is apparently fair game (so far) for midjourney et al.
well, yeah, I wouldn't disagree but it's not like they aren't trying. I think with Mastodon the followers are a lot more important than the toots though. I would agree that posting history here is probably a bigger deal.
I haven't looked at the back end to understand what might be involved, but just configuring the instance has given me an appreciation for the complexities and challenges involved in getting a federated app running at scale.
right, which is how things would be if the overarching objective of all software was to serve the needs of the general public - and to improve the lives of the users vs the shareholders. That is is how we end up paying a hundred or so a year to use some shitty web site to file taxes. Sorry I didn't know the o word was a no-no, I couldn't think of anything else more apt without swearing.
assuming you're setting up a dev instance from a linux PC, edit this line in hosts file:
your_user@localhost domain=localhost letsencrypt_contact_email=you@yourdom.ain lemmy_base_dir=<path to web server root for lemmy>
if you are running this at home and don't have port 80 open you will also need to comment out the certbot/letsencrpyt lines from the lenny.yml file because certbot needs http to issue the cert. Create a self signed cert after the installation and edit the config file under sites_available to use the self signed cert instead of letsencypt.
Lemmy works fine as a local dev instance with a self self-signed ssl cert and will subscribe and read from the fediverse without being able to post anything, of course because you don't have a resolvable name, but it appears fully functional otherwise).
chatGPT 3.5 is surprisingly familiar with lemmy's configuration via ansible (thanks to all of reddit's body of knowldege, presumably). So if you have a specific problem or immediate question, you can try that as well.