You did it! Hello, and welcome to the club. Lemmy has been my first foray into hosting a site on a VPS and it’s been quite the rabbit-hole; for the better of course. I hope you have fun.
Yes. I have a residential connection with a dynamic IP, so the trick for me was to use an SMTP relay with a trustworthy provider. That said, I don’t really use it.
I am not completely sure about the risks here, but I think as the sole user on my instance they are pretty low. I think the only way content gets onto my machine is if I post it, if I interact with content on other instances, or if I create a community to which other people from other instances start posting. Despite my handle, there are some crimes I don’t do. I should be okay as long as I don’t mess with illegal content myself and moderate accordingly others’ behavior in my communities.
It only pulls from communities you have subscribed to. Images aren’t duplicated per server, just text; so even if you find something nasty it’s not hosted by you and you can always delete comments from the database/block users from appearing in your instance.
Tangential - is there any reason a private instance couldn’t just not run a pictrs container? Especially if you’re not creating communities on your instance.
If you block porn-related instances suchas lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, you’ll drastically reduce your chance of getting CSAM contents on your instance. Not saying those instances promotes that kind of stuff, but many dubious instances (the ones with kiddie/doll banners) federate with them, and might post bad stuff when the mods aren’t looking.
If you’re still super worried about it, you can host your instance behind cloudflare and enable their CSAM scanning tool.
You’re supposed to contact them at espteam@ncmec.org in order to start the enrollment process, and it seems the service is only for US-based operators.
Hehe I needed a login for a Superbowl pool with my kid’s preschool and that’s what I came up with. When my wife saw she couldn’t stop laughing, so it stuck.
What are you running for your firewall? I’ve been curious about self hosting a Lemmy instance (currently have a few services like Plex, Minecraft, pihole, etc) but do worry about security
Just whatever is built into my home router. I only have certain ports open to my servers. The known unknown is whether nginx any of my sites’ software have exploitable vulnerabilities.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !selfhosted@lemmy.world
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hello there! I just got my instance up and running as well. Thanks to the help in the matrix channels for lemmy.
Nice work :)
You did it! Hello, and welcome to the club. Lemmy has been my first foray into hosting a site on a VPS and it’s been quite the rabbit-hole; for the better of course. I hope you have fun.
Nice work!
Greetings from my instance 😄
I love sh.itjust.works!
Haha thought i was on my other account 😅
I won’t tell anyone! Lmao.
But why?
For fun, mostly.
Why does Kirk climb a mountain?
Because it’s there!
Is e-mail working properly for you?
I’m trying to use the provided email service from my website provider OVH, I have the setup ok (webmail works) but I can’t set up Lemmy to use it :-/
Yes. I have a residential connection with a dynamic IP, so the trick for me was to use an SMTP relay with a trustworthy provider. That said, I don’t really use it.
i did the same thing using fastmail but the emails either come not at all or super delayed, would you mind sharing your provider?
It’s not open to the public unfortunately.
Weid, I’ve got no issue using fastmail for smtp
Hello from another self hosted instance comrade!
Hello from a third self hosted instance comrads!
Welcome from linz.city!
Also joined the club today :)
This sounds like a fun project to be honest. Are there any risks involved by getting bad content through federation that’s out of your control?
Just a week or so ago I read an article about a guy running a tor exit node personally and being held responsible for the traffic
I am not completely sure about the risks here, but I think as the sole user on my instance they are pretty low. I think the only way content gets onto my machine is if I post it, if I interact with content on other instances, or if I create a community to which other people from other instances start posting. Despite my handle, there are some crimes I don’t do. I should be okay as long as I don’t mess with illegal content myself and moderate accordingly others’ behavior in my communities.
Yeah pretty much.
It only pulls from communities you have subscribed to. Images aren’t duplicated per server, just text; so even if you find something nasty it’s not hosted by you and you can always delete comments from the database/block users from appearing in your instance.
Tangential - is there any reason a private instance couldn’t just not run a pictrs container? Especially if you’re not creating communities on your instance.
Yeah, but you’d lose out on being able to have a profile banner/photo.
If you block porn-related instances suchas lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, you’ll drastically reduce your chance of getting CSAM contents on your instance. Not saying those instances promotes that kind of stuff, but many dubious instances (the ones with kiddie/doll banners) federate with them, and might post bad stuff when the mods aren’t looking.
If you’re still super worried about it, you can host your instance behind cloudflare and enable their CSAM scanning tool.
Has anybody managed to get CyberTipline credentials for the CSAM scanning tool? I filled out their form and never heard back.
You’re supposed to contact them at espteam@ncmec.org in order to start the enrollment process, and it seems the service is only for US-based operators.
I did that, but never heard back, and I am US-based… very odd. Thanks for your reply!
These kind of organizations usually take their time when responding email, and certainly not on weekend.
It’s been more than a week, otherwise I’d think the same thing.
Great work!
Welcome! Another fellow self-hoster checking in ✅
I appreciate all of the weird instance names in here
Hehe I needed a login for a Superbowl pool with my kid’s preschool and that’s what I came up with. When my wife saw she couldn’t stop laughing, so it stuck.
Same.
Nice work and welcome to the club!
Just try not to get ddosed ok m8?
Yeah, I definitely have a lot to learn in terms of self-hosting self-defense.
What are you running for your firewall? I’ve been curious about self hosting a Lemmy instance (currently have a few services like Plex, Minecraft, pihole, etc) but do worry about security
Just whatever is built into my home router. I only have certain ports open to my servers. The known unknown is whether nginx any of my sites’ software have exploitable vulnerabilities.
Awesome stuff, man.