I tried an install today and the setup and federation is amazing. seeing that first remote search result pop in was a thrill.
what amazing work has been done by the dev team! ansible scripts work like a charm, flip switch federation, and an inherited a+ security profile to boot.
I will probably remove this instance before the end of the year in favour of another more curated instance once I’ve kicked the tires a bit.
EDIT: This has been shutdown for the time being. I have another personal instance running on a debian server. Great first experience deploying lemmy on vps.
Seems so easy to make a Lemmy instance. How is it possible?
not to mention it can run on a $5 server with a $2 domain with no ads or third party trackers. I don’t know of anything comparable.
We need to federate!
What are you using to host?
it’s a ubuntu server on US based digitalocean in germany location. I haven’t been able to sign up for a non-US VPS for some reason (hetzner denied me along with one other).