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1 year agoSelf-hosting lemmy.blue!
Self-hosting lemmy.blue!
He’s gonna run Twitter into the ground like you would your favorite car
+1 for running TrueNAS in a VM, I’ve got one running in Proxmox. Make sure to enable hardware passthrough so TrueNAS has direct access to your drives!
My workflow for setting up a Lemmy instance goes something like this:
+1 for Docker, specifically Docker Compose. Lemmy probably isn’t the right container to learn Docker with, but once you have the fundamentals down spinning up Lemmy was pretty seamless.
I use a few used Dell Optiplex 7050 Micros, they’re great for the price (and have a small footprint too!)
Edit: for storage I have a HP MicroServer Gen. 10 plus