Fellow self-hosters of Lemmy, what is your domain name?

Hangry @lm.helilot.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 51 points –

I hope this post is not too off topic. I thought that it would be nice to see the address of all the small self-hosted instances of Lemmy (1~5 users).

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I stood up an instance on linode for myself and a couple friends.

We’re lolimbeer.com !

Which is based on an old meme that I still find hilarious.

But, then I got a registration application that was excited about “lolis & beer”.

I still like the domain and I’ve had it sitting around for a minute, but i never really thought about it or read it that way before.

Sorry to hear that. But the whole thing is hilarious

Lol, I thought so too.

Made me think of the arrested development license plate, A new start, ANUSTART .

Also on kubernetes, hopefully this message works. First time testing from my self-hosted instance.

Well... Mine was once 1~5 users 😅 It's selfhosted on my own hardware.

Have you had any issues with your ISP?

What kind of issues? Stability? No issues.

I have considered hosting an instance but my ISP has vague terms prohibiting that sort of thing.

Best you can do is ask them directly.

Or just do it and ask later if there are problems ;) from.my experience when you ask they say no.

My instance has 2 users. The domain name is endlesstalk.org

I host it on a k3s cluster with 2 nodes.

Is there a way to host with high availability? Or is that a kubernetes feature?

K8s is just a huge abstraction over your clusters, the real question is if the software/containers support HA.

I’ve been meaning to test it for a while now, but have just been running VMs/Docker. Will check it out.

You can definitely have high availibillity without kubernetes, but its easier(For me atleast) with kubernetes.

What HA options exist outside of k8s?

For container orchestration, which is mostly what k8s provides, then you could use docker swarm or nomad. You could use docker-compose with multiple replicas of the wanted container + a load balancer to divide the load.

In general I don't think k8s/k3s is needed for hosting lemmy yet, but since I have a setup for k3s, it is easier for me to use it.

how do you handle the sled state for pictrs with 2 nodes? I've been having some trouble with it.

I have only 1 container of pictrs running(with no scaling) and are using longhorn for storage, so if the pictrs container switches node, then longhorn handles it for me.

I see, thanks. What volume(s) are you persisting that way exactly? I mean the internal path that pictrs is using.

The internal path, I'm persisting is /mnt, but I also use an older version of pictrs(0.3.1). Think the newer version uses a different path.

I also needed to add the following for the pictrs container to work correctly.

  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 991
    runAsGroup: 991
    fsGroup: 991

fl0w.cc- single user; the domain is meant to be part of my username :)

jemmy.jeena.net is a subdomain because under the main domain is my own website.

I started with fbxl.net, the domain I've owned forever. It started with social.fbxl.net, then video.fbxl.net, then lotide.fbxl.net, and now lemmy.fbxl.net. I've also got a matrix home server and a nostr relay.

If there's a piece of advice I can give you, it's to plan to self host more than just one thing. Once you have one thing, you're going to find out it's kind of addictive having your own thing to go to and you might want to host other things. Subdomains are a nice way to give you that chance.

Three users @borg.chat I was hoping to get established sooner but 0.17 gave me endless trouble that I was never able to resolve.

I tried installing an instance on Docker a few months ago, and it didn't work. Last month version was far easier to install imo

lemmy.nrd.li - The domain is pronounced Nerd-ly. I welcome anyone that considers themself a nerd and any community someone feels like being nerdy about.

I also have like 20+ others domains... Most of which are unused... I may have a problem.

I created dis.ney.ink to try to be the Lemmy version of the Disney subreddits (such as r/dvcmember and r/waltdisneyworld) ... so far there's 3 users and ~9 subscribers

I don't host lemmy (yet) but my domain is zyphr.xyz, I wanted zephry.xyz but it was taken.

Wish I had looked at other options before choosing to be honest.

mylem.me

it's intended to be a highly reliable little instance. For now it's closed, though, until I figured out how to properly handle pictrs' internal state.

New instance less than 20 people ATM. If you can't see it from the username it is Kerala.party

Hello. I run coeus.sbs

It hasn't been running long and it will evolve over time. I have a community called !green@coeus.sbs for posting images of green things.

Howdy! Just me over here… 👍

https://lemmy.socdojo.com because I'm not creative with names and just tacked it onto everything else on my lab/domain. The 'socdojo' part came from my first IT job where the T2/SOC referred to their little cave as the 'socdojo' aka a training ground for the soc newbs.

I was surprised nobody'd thoughr of this domain before. feditown.com

Mine is Lemmy.quad442.com which is a car that me and my dad are big about

https://leddit.danmark.party, because it's running a bot named Leddit that pulls content from Reddit. And, uh, Denmark Party, because I love Denmark and I thought it would be really funny to own a domain named this. I also wanted to split my serious and silly projects into different domains, so I bought this extra domain and use it for all of my silly projects now.

(Not posting directly from that instance so I can leave the bot in peace, but federation definitely works because posts from it are getting through to other instances)

Hosting mine at hyperfair.link. Initially thought about using a domain I already had, but realized it had my name in it so registered a new one with a random name I came up with so I don’t doxx myself. Picked the .link tld because it somewhat fit with the Lemmy idea and it was cheap on AWS (where I already have other domains and what not).

https://outpost.zeuslink.net

I started a habit a while back ago of naming any servers I run based off of names from Greek mythology - my primary server is Zeus but most forms of just "Zeus" in domain form are already taken. Similarly, I call the quasi-internal network that this server runs (since it's a hypervisor) "ZeusNet"...

Problem with that name is "ZeusNet.net" is redundant and would irk me, I wanted something that still ends with the .net TLD (though my personal domain ends with .network).

This, zeuslink.net is what I came up with given that "link" can mean "network" and the combination isn't as redundant as "...net.net"!

Funnily enough, originally my instance was originally under the colony subdomain which I quite liked... But unfortunately I didn't set things up properly due to how I have everything else setup, and I had already dipped just enough in the federation that when I reset everything so that it actually worked properly, the keys that my server identified with no longer matched which broke my ability to federate properly. Which then forced me to reset everything again under a completely different subdomain (I'm glad it was on a subdomain instead of the root domain for that reason) since Lemmy doesn't have a "self destruct" option like Mastodon has (which tells all connected instances "Hey, I'm going down - forget you knew me" as far as I understand it).

And that is the origin story of my domain, along with the subdomain. Thinking about it now, I should copy all of this as a standalone post on my instance 😅

Orcas Enjoying Yachts admin checking in!

It says I have 6 users but 2 of those accounts are test users I created when I was getting everything setup. My friend and I are on there and that’s really it.

Edit: somehow I have 20 users now which is kind of neat. Just not sure how many are valid since I had open registrations for a while (it’s still open to users but with verification and captcha enabled).

lemmy.mildgrim.com

It's a bit longer than most but I do run a few other things under mildgrim.com but maybe I should've gone with like l.mildgrim.com instead to keep it shorter.

But a good self-explanatory URL is always a boon.

Hello Sebastian

^^ And hi to you, I don't think I caught your name? Or do you prefer Ellipse?

Ellipse will do fine. While I admire your willingness to connect you account to you real identity, I enjoy the anonymity (or pseudonymity) internet provides. Have a good rest of the day Sebastian!

The good thing is you can have both right? I can be the public me on this account and enjoy the perks of that, which include a sense of legitimacy, vulnerability and that I have something at stake when I stick my neck out. Then I can start the VPN, log on to a completely different account and be the private me. Though these days I find that less and less appealing. The ability to do so I will defend, and I don't blame anyone who wishes to be anonymous for no particular reason. But to me it's a lot of work for no, to me, tangible gain.

Can anyone tell me the advantage of selfhosting Lemmy?

I have my Raspberry Pi which is only doing pihole atm and I've got an M2 Mac mini with some spare resources with docker installed so I've got hardware for it but what does it actually do?

I decided to pull the trigger when I was on sh.it just.works and Beehaw defederated them and Lemmy.world. I immediately couldn’t see posts from the super active beehaw communities even though I didn’t do anything. Realized it kind of did matter which instance you chose.

Totally never going to run a community on here, but at least I can see everything now, I can keep my post history, and if I get defederated it’s probably because I messed something up with my server

Random thoughts here:
I am in control of the backup of my data.
I don't have to worry about an instance going off, or a radical change of policy.
I can choose whatever pseudonym I want.
I participate in the decentralization of the network, which feels good after the fiasco of monolithic Reddit.
(Edit) I am also in charge of its content and its user base.

I am in control of the backup of my data.

This made me curious - does your own instance also have a copy of anything you post in communities hosted on other instances?

I would assume so as it makes sense technically, but you ought to double check

Mine, though it says 202 users, is only actually 2, me and a test account, cause it got botted due to me leaving open registration. Luckily found out about 10 seconds after it started, but still, annoying. Though yea, just myself on here for now. :D

you might wanna clean up your database there. at least purge anyone from the local_user table who doesn't belong there so that they can't log in. if you also remove all the relevant entries from person it will fix the displayed user count as well.

Hey, it’s been a while, but just wanted to say that following this fixed my instance, and numbers are now normal again. Thanks! 💛

I'm on jamie.moe, I like to collect domain names that are just my name.

Wow, good job for the generations of your family, having a name that would one day be a TLD. Some awesome foresight, there.

Sorry for the confusion, but Moe isn't my last name, just the jamie part. I also own jamie.tools and jamie.today.

Hey, I do not think that this is off topic at all. My instance is matejc.com

I host my public stuff like lemmy at inu.is. Mostly because I wanted something short and cute, and .is got a lot of nice short domains up for grabs.

https://pricefield.org for me. i've seen the move to lemmy, thought for half a second about my favorite fandom, and knew it had to happen.

it's been a rougher ride than i expected but it's hella exciting