I hope this post is not too off topic. I thought that it would be nice to see the address of all the small self-hosted instances of Lemmy (1~5 users).

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 year ago

    Three users @borg.chat I was hoping to get established sooner but 0.17 gave me endless trouble that I was never able to resolve.

    • Hangry OPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I tried installing an instance on Docker a few months ago, and it didn’t work. Last month version was far easier to install imo

  • @[email protected]English
    15•1 year ago

    Also on kubernetes, hopefully this message works. First time testing from my self-hosted instance.

  • [email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    New instance less than 20 people ATM. If you can’t see it from the username it is Kerala.party

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      how do you handle the sled state for pictrs with 2 nodes? I’ve been having some trouble with it.

      • PhilipEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I have only 1 container of pictrs running(with no scaling) and are using longhorn for storage, so if the pictrs container switches node, then longhorn handles it for me.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          I see, thanks. What volume(s) are you persisting that way exactly? I mean the internal path that pictrs is using.

          • PhilipEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            The internal path, I’m persisting is /mnt, but I also use an older version of pictrs(0.3.1). Think the newer version uses a different path.

            I also needed to add the following for the pictrs container to work correctly.

              securityContext:
    runAsUser: 991
    runAsGroup: 991
    fsGroup: 991
      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        K8s is just a huge abstraction over your clusters, the real question is if the software/containers support HA.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          I’ve been meaning to test it for a while now, but have just been running VMs/Docker. Will check it out.

      • PhilipEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        You can definitely have high availibillity without kubernetes, but its easier(For me atleast) with kubernetes.

          • PhilipEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            For container orchestration, which is mostly what k8s provides, then you could use docker swarm or nomad. You could use docker-compose with multiple replicas of the wanted container + a load balancer to divide the load.

            In general I don’t think k8s/k3s is needed for hosting lemmy yet, but since I have a setup for k3s, it is easier for me to use it.

  • AcidEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Can anyone tell me the advantage of selfhosting Lemmy?

    I have my Raspberry Pi which is only doing pihole atm and I’ve got an M2 Mac mini with some spare resources with docker installed so I’ve got hardware for it but what does it actually do?

    • JasonEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      I decided to pull the trigger when I was on sh.it just.works and Beehaw defederated them and Lemmy.world. I immediately couldn’t see posts from the super active beehaw communities even though I didn’t do anything. Realized it kind of did matter which instance you chose.

      Totally never going to run a community on here, but at least I can see everything now, I can keep my post history, and if I get defederated it’s probably because I messed something up with my server

    • Hangry OPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Random thoughts here:
      I am in control of the backup of my data.
      I don’t have to worry about an instance going off, or a radical change of policy.
      I can choose whatever pseudonym I want.
      I participate in the decentralization of the network, which feels good after the fiasco of monolithic Reddit.
      (Edit) I am also in charge of its content and its user base.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        I am in control of the backup of my data.

        This made me curious - does your own instance also have a copy of anything you post in communities hosted on other instances?

        • Hangry OPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I would assume so as it makes sense technically, but you ought to double check