I started with paths because I didnāt want to pay for a expensive SSL certificate for each service Iām running (now with letsencrypt no problem anymore). But that turned out to be a terrible idea. Once I wanted to host a service on a different server the problems started. With subdomain you just point your DNS to the correct IP address and thatās it. With paths you have to proxy everything through your one vhost and it getās really messy. And to be honest most services expect you to run them on the root directory and not a path.
If itās anything like SMTP on a Mediawiki or Discourse instance (example notes, then what you probably need is something called ātransactional emailā (Iām guessing youāre looking at a guide like this?). Iāve made use of this guide for looking up vendors for that service.
In theory, the same server hosting a Lemmy service could also send and receive emails. However, in practice thereās a high probability of these emails landing in spam boxes. The defacto proof-of-work hurdle that inhibits email spam today is paying commercial transactional email companies a monthly fee. Iām hopeful that one day self-hosted email server software will become easier to set up through things like FreedomBox (via Postfix, Dovecot, and Rspamd), but the fundamental reputation problem remains, imo.
So, I doubt a Lemmy setup guide would automatically take care of email setup. In any case, the process involves creating at least one MX record (according to instructions provided by your transactional email service) with your DNS provider which depends on the name servers you have configured for your domain registrar. The transactional email service you select should provide instructions for what port to open, as well as what SMTP URL, user name, password, and postmaster email address to provide to Lemmy.
You know how discord has multiple servers?
Now imagine if those servers where actually owned by a person (self-hosted), and each server could connect with the other servers, so you can see content on whatever server you are.
For reddit folks - imagine there are 10 different reddits with all of their own individual subreddits. You have the ability to only view and comment on yours, but also can look and comments on all of those others ones if you want to.
Fwiw, I am very happy to support the patreon but I don't feel great about it being attached to server perks. For some people $4/mo is nothing at all and for others it is genuinely significant. I don't want the Star Trek instance of all instances to be rewarding those who can afford to contribute financially.
That's a good point I hadn't considered, appreciate the insight. As long as we can pay the bills with what comes in, I suppose for now we'll just stick with what we've got.
Hooray, thank you! Fwiw, it is the donations model that is most common in FOSS projects (pay what/if you can) and I think it engenders a better sense of community, and I certainly feel more inclined to pay for something just so support it rather than because of any particular "perks" I might get, which are geeeenerally not really worth the money per se. I also would prefer your time to be spent on the actual server and not on having to integrate the various perks/linking accounts to patreon/etc etc.
The only perk we had in mind thus far was some user flair (whenever that inevitably gets invented). But you make a great point. Still getting used to this egalitarian perspective.
Maybe we could just reward people with ferengi themed flair for donating on patreon? Then all other types of flair could be kept unrelated to money or ferengis and be rewarded for stuff that doesnāt require money :P
lwaxana_katana, great point. I agree with you. Itās something I hadnāt thought about until you mentioned it. Iād rather see time and energy go to making startrek.website more and more awesome, rather than have something that differentiates the can donate from the canāt donate. Sometimes I have spare quatloos; sometimes Iām searching the couch cushion for quatloos. Startrek.website knows who donates. I think thatās good enough.
Sorry for not doing your name correctly. Iām still learning and not yet at the how to direct a comment at a particular person part of my learning curve.
I tried searching for a community when I first joined lemmy, admittedly that was only a couple days ago. However, I couldnāt find one. I think I struggle the most with this part of lemmy. The finding of communities feels a bit cumbersome to me and could be an area to improve upon. Donāt get me wrong, never going back to the sinking ship of Reddit. Thank you for sharing the link!
Yeah itās a tricky one to fix because the federated nature of everything means thereās probably no instance that has every possible community indexed in search.
Thatās where tools like browse.feddit.de come in but thatās a little bit finicky too and Iām not sure how things get indexed there.
Saw someone was building a more advanced search interface yesterday but I canāt remember the URL now, it looked promising though so will come back and update you when I find it!
P.s I didnāt post the link as some kind of passive aggressive thing I just thought youād like to see it š
I am a big fan of āmini desktopā computers for this sort of task (my lemmy instance is running on one). You can usually pick them up used/refurbished for pretty cheap with decent specs: i5 or better processors, upgradeable RAM (SO-DIMM), M.2 or 2.5in SSD. They are quite small, and relatively low power. I have a few in my homelab, and one acting as my media-center PC in my living room.
Youāre right, just having one mini-pc with Proxmox and being able scale VMs between applications is a lot better than a collection of sbcās. I will look at the used market.
Subdomain; overall cheaper after a certain point to get a wildcard cert, and if you split your services up without a reverse proxy itās easier to direct names to different servers.
Loved the episod! Ethan Peck owned it and now I canāt wait to see even more of Carol Kaneās character.
I am curious though, are the writers hinting at a future āJekyll & Hydeā plot line when it comes to MāBenga and that green battle juice that he apparently keeps with himself at all times?
My thought is that his plotline this season might include some resolution of Klingon War era trauma, of which weāve been told just a little bit in this episode, and which brings him to carry the super soldier serum on him.
2gb will be limiting, and the database will kill SD cards quickly (like, a couple weeks kind of quickly) However if itās just you and <100 other people it will not be stressed otherwise
For little computers like the Pi and its clones, Iād recommend using a SATA SSD via USB rather than an SD card, unless your use case has very few writes. Iād recommend this cable: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XLAZODE/. Itās one of the ones thatās well supported by the Pi, and is what I use.
Edit: I recommended a SATA SSD rather than NVMe because you wonāt really notice a major difference over USB, and some NVMe drives pull more power than the Piās USB ports can handle (SATA uses quite a bit less power).
Seems like storage use is quite intense, and RAM usage exceeds the 150MB that the docs mention too. For storage, I would probably try to use a cloud option (AWS S3?) to prevent having to replace/add disks all the time.
Although itās starting to look like more and more of a hassle and not that much benefit so far.
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