I also really like the tunnels feature. It makes self hosting at home easy for those under NAT/CGNAT or whatever it was called.

Porkbun asks for your ID now so that might not be “privacy-respecting” but their CS is very helpful from my experience.

I have domains in Netim and Spaceship, and I have no problems with either so far.

https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml

pict-rs has the option to compress images. Ours is set to WEBP with 1280 pixels either side max.

They’re all bot accounts.

I just checked and while I do have the option and set it to true, I couldn’t load the JXL images on this page.

I don’t remember which update it was but newer versions of Lemmy use significantly less database storage.

I recommend checking out lowendtalk.com if you’re shopping for VPS hosting providers.

Good to know! Have fun with your new instance!

I went through the Sendgrid docs and your configuration seems to be correct. Just to make sure, your login is literally just “apikey” right? As indicated in the docs.

The rotating arrow means that the email is not sending out.

You can also try starttls (port 587) if tls and none does not work.

You’re welcome. I think there should be a better way to communicate a removed or banned community. Maybe like a “removed/banned community for X reason” sign instead of the “community_not_found” error page.

I’m guessing the community was banned and purged by lemmy.ml.

edit: Their modlog says that they removed this community.

You need smtp_login and smtp_password there. Not sure what that is for Sendgrid however. It might be your accoint sername/email and the API key. Sendgrid probably has docs for their SMTP server.

Not possible at all right now. GIFs can be converted to video format depending on the server configuration.

uBO is enough for me. If I need more than that, I’d probably just use something like Tor instead.

One tool that I liked from Reddit was manually approving posts from accounts under a certain age or karma threshold. I hope we can get tools like that one day.

I’m sure the original spirit of selfhosting is actually owning the hardware (whether enterprise- or consumer-grade) but depending on your situation, renting a server could be more stable or cost effective. Whether you own the hardware or not, we all (more or less) have shared experiences anyway.

Where I live, there are some seasons wherein the weather could be pretty bad and internet or electricity outages can happen. I wouldn’t mind hours or even days of downtime for a service whose users are only myself or a few other people (i.e. non-critical services) like a private Jellyfin server, a Discord bot, or a game server.

For a public Lemmy server, I’d rather host it on the cloud where the hardware is located in a datacenter and I pay for other people to manage whatever disasters that could happen. As long as I make regular backups, I’m free to move elsewhere if I’m not satisfied with their service.

As far as costs go, it might be cheaper to rent VMs if you don’t need a whole lot of performance. If you need something like a dedicated GPU, then renting becomes much more expensive. Also consider your own electricity costs and internet bills and whether you’re under NAT or not. You might need to use Cloudflare tunnels or rent a VPS as a proxy to expose your homeserver to the rest of the world.

If the concern is just data privacy and security, then honestly, I have no idea. I know it’s common practice to encrypt your backups but I don’t know if the Lemmy database is encrypted itself or something. I’m a total idiot when it comes to these so hopefully someone can chime in and explain to us :D

For Lemmy hosting guides, I wrote one which you can find here but it’s pretty outdated by now. I’ve moved to rootless Docker for example. The Lemmy docs were awful at the time so I made some modifications based on past experiences with selfhosting. If you’re struggling with their recommended way of installing it, you can use my guide as reference or just ask around in this community. There’s a lot of friendly people who can help!

I believe those bans are people who are banned from their home instances and can’t interact with the rest of Lemmy with that account as a result. If I ban another user from a different instance, that doesn’t mean they’re banned everywhere but only from my instance. Correct me if I’m wrong.

The favicon is the instance icon. You can change it in Admin Settings > Icon from the web interface.

20 iirc