Philip

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  • Thank you for clarifying(and sorry for the late answer).

    For you (and anyone interested) I will answer the questions you asked.

    Are you going to close upon any legal threat, or only upon a certain degree or size of threat?

    If the legal threat is real(they have a real chance to win in a court) and there is nothing I could do(come to an agreement, move the hosting to another server etc), then I would close the server.

    From the US only, or from any country?

    Server is hosted in Germany

    Will you close instantly, or will you guarantee a Minimum Survivability Timeframe for eg.: helping users to migrate away, like Mastodon’s covenant does?

    As long as there aren’t fines for keeping the website up or I get arrested, I would give a notice, so users can move to another server.


  • Lemmy.world does a great job(with a little downtime) and it is the same software we are hosting, so I can only see a couple of ways to make a better “offering”

    1. Better uptime as you mentioned
    2. Different deferation/moderation policy.
    3. Visual customizations(eg. different theme)

    I try to provide a better uptime and a different deferation/moderation policy. I don’t have the skills to make visual customizations, but I have added multiple frontends(like lemmy.world).

    I’m open to suggestions/ideas if there is anything else that could be done to improve the “offering”.




  • You(and everyone else) are welcome at endlesstalk.org.

    I prioritize uptime and have setup monitoring to notify, if anything goes down(See here). I have no problem banning/defederating Nazi’s and the like, but I generally don’t take action unless, an instance/users aren’'t following the rules. I’m open for requests and discussion though.

    Currently I’m the only admin, but I’m in the process of changing the setup of the site, so other admins would be able to fix the site, if anything should happen.





  • PhilipAtoLemmy@lemmy.mlSelfhosting single person instance?
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    1 year ago

    How powerful should my hardware be?

    I think 512mb ram is probably a bit too low. There is a risk for the pc to crash at some point. I think 1 GB+ should be fine.

    Which ports do I need opened to operate a lemmy instance for my personal use (i’m only going to be connecting from home)?

    To avoid opening ports you can use Cloudflare tunnel as you mentioned.

    Only other option is probably renting a cheap vps. Here is a cheap vps options for 2.5$


  • PhilipAtoLemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    If you have the ability then self hosting is the best option

    Otherwise I think instances with less users and content will be quicker, but then the all feed will probably be smaller.

    I will also recommend my own instance endlesstalk.org. It is very small(10 users) and the server is located in Germany. Hopefully that is close to where you live, so the latency is low.