I’m a nerd but not to the point I’m ready to install my own servers.
Is there a way for folks like me to set up and run a Lemmy, or is that reserved for the technical experts?
On the old site, I think one of the unspoken benefits was that anyone could create and run a sun
What about letting people gather a community (on your server)?
I mean the big instances will be “full” one day no? I love the decentralisation part of Lemmy too so that is partly why I’m trying to get a small server up and running.
Nah, big instances don’t get full, they get just get bigger.
I don’t want to discourage anyone from self hosting. It’s absolutely within anyone’s reach and could be a very rewarding pursuit. I would 100% encourage anyone to learn about self hosting in general. I also do not mean to imply that you or anyone else doesn’t have what it takes.
That said, I’ve found my own self hosting efforts to be a little bit like a new puppy. It’s a big commitment and once the shine wears off it might be more of a responsibility than you bargained for. In my experience things do go wrong unexpectedly. When others are depending on you, you can find yourself in a situation where you have to put your life on hold for several hours trying to figure out what’s gone wrong.
So in summary, it would be a cool thing to do but too much of a commitment for me.
With full I meant the hardware is maxed out (or bandwidth).
I haven’t yet really figured out how it all works, complexity-wise.
Yeah, I don’t really know for sure but I don’t think that’s a significant risk at present. IDK anything about lemmy’s architecture specifically but I would be surprised if even a large instance like world is approaching a hard limit.
Cost will become a factor but even 1 in 1000 users donating $5 a month is probably enough to have a surplus.