Are there any paid services for either Lemmy or Mastodon? Something where, given it is a subscription service, you would expect them to stick around long-term?
Are there any paid services for either Lemmy or Mastodon? Something where, given it is a subscription service, you would expect them to stick around long-term?
Second this. And other instances would still be accessible. Even more so since lemmy.world (along with probably some others) is starting censorship, which wouldn’t affect you, since you decide what you can see.
I’d love to self host one for everyone but not allow communities. The idea would be that I federate with everyone no matter what and leave a what the user wants to sub to up to them. No censorship at all.
Not having communities would mean I don’t have to worry about what I host and have other instances defederate with me. Plus, I have no interest in being mod, dealing with DCMA,user reports, etc.
You can disable communities on your instance as an admin, but you would need to disable uploading.
Would that allow someone to still post/upload on other communities? Honestly haven’t looked into this at all. Was going to in a couple weeks when I have time to actually sit down and test
Yep. My instance just has me on it and posting elsewhere works without issue. Anything I upload goes to my instance and federates out. It’s really quite great not having to worry about the instance drama when big ones defederate from each other. I also turned off NSFW so I don’t have to worry about any of that content (legal or otherwise) even hitting my server.
Here’s an image of me making this comment via Sync for Lemmy
Edit: I have community creation locked down to admins, which everything disables them on my instance.
I assume lemmy doesn’t clean up images after X days/years? it would be pointless if it does… I’m a datahoarder but paying storage costs to host this stuff doesn’t fit in the budget. I guess I have a lot of things to consider. Thanks!
Yeah I haven’t found anything for cleanup maintenance. Right now with just me my disk usage is increasing ~300MB per day. I’m debating purging stuff older than 30 days or something. The only stuff where my server is the source of truth is my profile and communities on my instance.
We’ll see though, this is just a fun little side thing I’m not taking too seriously.
You’ve made 32 comments. 300MB a day must be mostly cache content from other instances that you’re viewing. I don’t see any reason to keep that past 30 days. I might even say 14 days.
I have a couple hours today. I’ve set up an instance pretty easily. Resources with just me doesn’t seem bad at all. Your other comment about illegal uploads is what’s holding me back from making a public one. Not only do I not want to be a mod, I don’t want to see that shit. I have a hard enough time seeing the thumbnail of some lemmyNSFW before I can block it.
I love that tailscale/wireguard doesn’t reply to UDP packets without the key. I only have the one UDP port open at my house. All my hosts are on tailscale. Sadily Matrix and Lemmy need to be public public.
The growth is happening mostly in the pictrs and db containers. I know pictrs is optional if you’re not uploading pics yourself, but I didn’t want to limit myself on that. I haven’t dived into where the db growth is happening yet either. Right now my hurdle is there doesn’t seem to be any baked in maintenance tools, so it’s all going to be me editing the database directly. I’m okay with doing it but need to figure out how to not purge content I have saved via Lemmy.
As far as NSFW stuff, there’s a check box for the instance settings for enabling NSFW instance wide. I have it unchecked and haven’t seen a single NSFW post browsing through my instance. It does require things to be marked as such though. I’ll probably go the extra step and defederate the porn instances just to add another layer.
Please let me know if you find anything useful for maintaining the instance.