• laxe@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it’s almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.

      Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.

    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Is their a way to lock it down so only you can use it? I was thinking about hosting my own. But i was worried that others might start visiting it.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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        1 year ago

        You can disable registration so nobody can make an account.

        If you don’t want anyone browsing your server, you could also whitelist your home IP and block access to the rest of the Lemmy API (that doesn’t involve federation).

          • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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            1 year ago

            The default for federation is on these days (though your server will only federate with communities any user on your server has accessed, which is none by default). As these posts appear on your server, anyone will be able to see what content is being federated on the global timeline. That said, my server is receiving various communities I don’t believe I’m subscribed to, including ones that I’ve never even heard of. I’m not sure where those are coming from.

            You can change the federation mode as instance admin; you can switch between blacklist (current default), whitelist (old default), or no federation at all (internal server only, maybe useful within companies?). Note that going whitelist-only will have an impact on the comments you’ll be able to see on your server.

            • platypus_plumba@sh.itjust.works
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              Hey, I see you have experience with Lemmy and I don’t see any place to ask this type of questions.

              I was checking a community in an instance and realized that there were no federated posts. Are federated posts only visible from the ALL view? I was hoping for community browsing to also have a federated experience to enhance content. For example, if I want to browse the Gaming community of an instance, why shouldn’t I see gaming communities from other instances?

              I understand this type of federation would require more interaction than instance to instance federation, but still, would be amazing to see more content when checking communities.

      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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        1 year ago

        Not idea, try asking in the “self hosting” community. The instance im in was created by the mods of the r/brasil subreddit and its works great (for me) because is not as popular as the bigger ones and is hosted locally in Brazil.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Is there a solid how to / walk through for setting one of those up? Lemmy world is flailing hard and I want to jump to my own instance.