Me, who uses a locally crafted free roam instance:
I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it’s almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.
Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.
Is their a way to lock it down so only you can use it? I was thinking about hosting my own. But i was worried that others might start visiting it.
You can disable registration so nobody can make an account.
If you don’t want anyone browsing your server, you could also whitelist your home IP and block access to the rest of the Lemmy API (that doesn’t involve federation).
Isn’t federation a two way contract? Or is it enabled by default on instances and only blacklisted?
The default for federation is on these days (though your server will only federate with communities any user on your server has accessed, which is none by default). As these posts appear on your server, anyone will be able to see what content is being federated on the global timeline. That said, my server is receiving various communities I don’t believe I’m subscribed to, including ones that I’ve never even heard of. I’m not sure where those are coming from.
You can change the federation mode as instance admin; you can switch between blacklist (current default), whitelist (old default), or no federation at all (internal server only, maybe useful within companies?). Note that going whitelist-only will have an impact on the comments you’ll be able to see on your server.
Not idea, try asking in the “self hosting” community. The instance im in was created by the mods of the r/brasil subreddit and its works great (for me) because is not as popular as the bigger ones and is hosted locally in Brazil.
Is there a solid how to / walk through for setting one of those up? Lemmy world is flailing hard and I want to jump to my own instance.
Maybe look at the Docs?
Is this from the alternate ending of titanic?
Looks like. God, it’s awful.
“That really sucks, lady!”
