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Hi all!

This is my first post from my self-hosted Lemmy instance!

Thanks all you guys who gave me suggestions and help!

Hope you can see it, BTW :)

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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can see you! Near the top of my lemmy.world feed (I believe, I'm pretty new to all this as well)

Congratulations on getting your instance up!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 10 points 5 days ago

Thanks! Amazing... Cool cool

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My instance of one now federates with your instance of one.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So it's true after all that 1+1=11

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[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

you're coming in loud and clear from the lemm.ee instance.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 9 points 5 days ago

Beautiful!

Really happy

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Welcome, don't forget to claim and tag yourself on fediseer. Make sure you provide the target instance to guarantee for you when soliciting a guarantee. They will get a PM ;)

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 4 days ago

will do immediately! Thanks!

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You’re coming in loud and clear here in the great white North!

How was the process of setting up self hosting?

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Actually much easier than I thought.

Went the docker way and only did a few errors... Took two tries to get everything in order. I am documenting the process here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy but the page is far from complete...

edit: i just finished updating the page, it should contain more or less all the issues and solutions i encountered.

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I'd host my own, but I'm lazy and The Dude hasn't given me a reason to.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can see you from Blahaj :3

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 4 days ago

Glad that works mate! I like you guys and the topics brought along by your instance.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 4 days ago

Cool! I am just having a coffee myself!

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Curios about how much space is required for hosting a personal Lemmy instance? Is this something you know, if it's not too much I would be interested in hosting myself!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 2 days ago

After a few days my one use instance is globbing up 190mb of disk space. I am subscribed to quite a few communities too.

[–] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think my instance has been growing at about 30 GB a year. I think if you set it up to not rehost the pictures, you can keep the whole thing in the handful of GB range.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Oh thats a lot less than i had imagined actually and very neat that u can turn of re-hosting pictures! Putting this on my to-do list!

[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Heyo! I just set up a full suite of fediverse nonsense over at MakrArmy.io! Congrats!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 3 days ago

Hear you loud and clear!

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Confirmed, can see it from lemmy.today!

Congrats!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 4 days ago

I hope it will be seen also from Lemmy.tomorrow! (Pun intended)

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Visible on lemmy.zip

Well done :)

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 4 days ago

Cool! I got zipped as well!

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Neat!

Any chance you could share some resources on how you did it? I’d kinda like to give it a try…

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I will finish writing that on my wiki today at https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy

edit: page done!

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[–] Valeria@feddit.kyiv.ua 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 4 days ago

Hi amico Ukrainian lemmer! Glad to see you here.

[–] hindy@mbin.lovetux.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey! This is my first post from my self-hosted Mbin instance! :-)

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is mbin still alive and well? Cool!

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[–] pp99@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

congratulations!! greetings from shitjustworks

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 4 days ago

I simply.love your instance name... I couldn't come with such a good one.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 4 days ago

I couldn't live without your 'Arrs related community!

[–] a@91268476.xyz 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu I can from a self-hosted sharkey instance, congrats!

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Congrats! Works fine from sdf.org as well

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 4 days ago

Cool bro! Cool... Love federation.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nice work, although for single user instances I would suggest using PieFed.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Care to elaborate? Interesting

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