I would use it. Anything to not have to use public transportation or fly in an airplane ever again.

I was primarily interested in r/soapmaking, r/instantpot and r/breadmachines. Also some true crime ones - I’ve joined the ones I could find here but there’s hardly anyone in them.

Yes totally. I originally used Reddit because I was subscribed to some super-niche hobby communities. I never doom-scrolled the front page or anything. These communities don’t yet exist in Lemmy yet so I’m kind of hanging around to see what happens. And yes, everything is negative. But to be fair, I didn’t sign up expecting to read uplifting stories and people (or bots) are just posting clickbait garbage that the internet is already awash in anyways.

I prefer more discussion forum type communities rather than link aggregators. I just need to keep looking for what I like and subscribing to those so I can filter out the crap.

ya think?

Dealt with by simply rinsing it afterwards

I’m not up to speed on the environmental impact of cotton farming, but it would be pretty cool if this technology could be applied to stuff like the oil palm, which only grows in tropical areas.

Great, now it will be even easier to post endlessly about it.

My kid’s school here in the UK banned them, but the kids all take them in anyways and the teachers don’t care.

I had banned YouTube in the house, but then the school started assigning homework to watch YouTube videos.

The dependence of our infrastructure on private social media companies is shocking and needs to be stopped immediately.

There are 2 reverse proxies involved. One is Nginx which is used to front both the Lemmy UI and the Lemmy backend. That’s what the ‘proxy’ container in the docker compose file is for. It seems to be a required component of the application stack as different request types to the same host FQDN are sent to different backends (‘upstreams’ in network speak). You could use Caddy here instead if you wanted, which is the point of this page: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/caddy.html. However, that config doesn’t work for the latest version of Caddy (you’ll get an error about stuff being outside of the site block).

The other one (could either be Nginx again or Caddy or anything else you want instead) is to front the whole thing and provide TLS termination using Letsencrypt. This bit is explained here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html#reverse-proxy--webserver

I am not telling you to quit I’m not telling you to know more. I was merely suggesting that the devs put out the minimal required documentation for an experienced admin to get it up and running, while also suggesting a way to not waste money.

Sorry it came out wrong.

Do you have a local device you can try all this on first so you’re not wasting money?

I agree the guides aren’t great, but they assume you have some experience doing this stuff.

I used to do all this, but then I gave up and started paying for NextDNS. It’s like having your own Piholes in the cloud. It’s like £18/year and is way more reliable than self hosting, especially for something as crucial as DNS for your home. It also has excellent parental controls if you need that, multiple profiles, good logging and analytics and a decent looking privacy policy.

Sure, it’s not as fun as self-hosting but it’s better then getting shouted at every time someone’s app stops working because of some glitch in your setup.

I’m currently trying to get Lemmy working on Azure Container Apps and Azure Postgres Flexible Server. I’ve got it all deployed, but I’m having some issues with the reverse proxy.

Regarding the ‘best’ choice - well it depends on what you mean by ‘best’. AKS will be the most flexible and ACI will probably be the simplest (if it will even work for Lemmy - I haven’t looked at ACI in years). Container Apps will probably be somewhere in the middle. Container Apps is just an abstraction over Kubernetes, so in theory you should get the scalability and flexibility of k8s without the overhead of managing a cluster.

I got Lemmy up and running on my home Rapberry Pi microk8s cluster pretty easily, so it will work fine on AKS for sure.

I’m looking at Container Apps just as a pet project because I’ve been waiting for a product like this for years. Kubernetes is awesome, but has always been too complicated for the average software developer to use. It needs a layer of abstraction and that’s what Container Apps is. So anyways I figured running Lemmy on it would be a good way to test drive it.

As I said though, I’ve run into some issues and am almost at the point where I was going to ask for help. If anyone’s interested, I can post links to my Github repos with my Terraform code and all that.

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