post from @cyclohexane@lemmy.ml :
I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.
The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.
While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.
It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.
Great idea! I’ll start you off: I have my own instance set up (which I am commenting from) and everything seems to be working okay, except my instance icon is not showing. I’m using Nginx Proxy Manager and mapped the IP and Port to the Lemmy instance. I can see https but it also states that some parts are not using https (such as images)