Lets say i want to host my own instance of lemmy i will buy some domain and hosting server i will run an lemmy instance and then i can just start adding other instancies and post something on them or they also meeds to approve my instance?

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    No need to be approved. Unless, of course, you do something and get blocked by some instance. There also are some instances that block everyone - I think that’s the Private Instance setting in the setup UI.

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    1 year ago

    Most of the servers running lemmy have federation enabled and open (as you can see, I’m one of those self-hosted instances) and you can just interact with them. Some do have federation locked down, but that’s the minority

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      1 year ago

      Do you need a domain for a selfhosted instance? That sounds like something I would like to try but I’ve never opened anything selfhosted up to the internet

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        1 year ago

        Yeah you do, IPs don’t work afaik and even if they did, many Fediverse servers don’t support them so your compatibility would be abysmal