Understandable, I will say you definitely chose to dive straight into the deep end choosing Lemmy 🤣 I think most people cut their teeth using docker on stuff like Plex and the related *arrs, then jump to the more complex stuff.
But, it’s also the best way to learn so enjoy it :) stuff like this will become trivial eventually
This is the solution to your problem
Change your config to mount the data directory to /var/lib/postgresql instead of /var/lib/postgresql/data
My advice though, if your debugging skills are primarily comprised of asking AI for help, you’re in for a bit of a learning curve. The software is absolutely amazing (I’ve been running an instance since 2023), but weird things pop up and because this is so niche quick google searches are very limited and you gotta be willing to dive into github issues (this for example, I’ve also had to do it for pictrs to debug something a while ago).
Don’t feel discouraged though, this is probably the most rewarding thing I host (more than plex, immich, or any of the other “mainstream” things people talk about)
Editing to add, i know this is the fix because I had to reinstall lemmy from the ground up (long story) a few weeks ago and had the same issue :)
Third’d
Mint or any other ubuntu-derivative distro is 10000% the move. I’ve been running ubuntu as my os for a while now, and I’ve spent nearly the last decade on linux (makes me feel old saying that lol).
The other distros have a lot of strength, but at the end of the day i want to spend my time messing with things i want to mess with. I don’t want random weird issues that I have to constantly debug, and everyone can agree that stability is debian’s (and therefore ubuntu’s) undisputed strength
I mean, the only alternative is physical media of course ;)
Is it good? I’ve had it in the backlog for a while
Yeah, this was a fresh db. I think it had to do with other instances thinking mine was dead. Things have started to come in as expected now, so hopefully everything works from here (🤞)
Ahhh okay! Yeah it seems that in the 24h since i made this post, things have started to work as I’d expect again!
Guess i was just being impatient, I’ve been going through lemmy withdrawals for the last week or so while i worked through this issue 🤣
Thanks for the matrix link, I’ll join the room (and finally get some real use out of my matrix server)
Well, at least by creating this post, I know that outgoing federation works!
try this
But, make a backup of your db beforehand. I don’t know how it would work when upgrading an existing database