Comment on Questions on self-hosting Lemmy

poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Lemmy is very database write heavy once federated, so unless you get the nvme extension for your Rpi5 it will not work very well. The database is also very RAM hungry as a result.

Anyways, if it is just about testing, it should not be a problem.

Lemmy by itself should be accessible without a domain name, but federation depends on it. Just give it a try and accessit via “localhost”.

A TLD is just a reference to an public IP. Basically you ask a server what IP does this name reference and that’s it.

TLS certificates (via Lets Encrypt) are necessary for participating in the federation and protect data like passwords of the users while being send to the server. It is not strictly speaking a security measure for your server.

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