Do it, 100% worth it! Also has some extra stuff for already-experienced users if it gets too easy :)

I had the same issue, this is indeed perfect for that level and a nice cozy start for your server admin journey :) I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

I hope someone else can pitch in with a more indepth instructions, but two things I wanted to mention:

First, forget about hosting your own email from home. Seriously. Even those who do it professionally don’t want to deal with that at home. You’ll find people on fediverse who do it but I’m sure plenty will give you this same recommendation/warning. It’s a huge hassle and it’s so easy to get your domain blocked/ending up on a blacklist and way harder to get out of it.

Second, I can personally recommend https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/ if you are really starting from scratch ( there’s a community here: !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev ). This is how I started and set up my own linux server and started self hosting stuff on it. It’s really basic and won’t teach you everything you need but it’s a great start for setting up your own server. You can do everything with a local server at home that you have set up.

That’s a nice tip, have to try that out. Thanks!

Vinegar based cleaner for everything and you are good. Recommend a separate, dedicated mirror cleaner for mirrors though. Clean weekly to reduce the need to scrub with more powerful stuff.

Couldn’t you just place a sticker on top? I know that you’ll either not get the led light or it’s gonna look a bit funny in the dark if part of the windows logo shines through if the sticker is not thick enough, but you can place a tiny tux sticker there!

Just passing along: this post was apparently a joke, see: https://feddit.org/post/18963366

Moved inside Europe to another country because my partner had lived 3 years in my home country and complained about everything, so we decided it’s my turn to complain about everything. One more year to go to settle the score.

On a serious note we both love things about each others country and we are both open to live in either. Living and breathing your partner’s culture and environment they grew up in is such a great way to understand them on a deeper level. I finally understand her complaints and she understands mine!

This is true but I just want to add that instance admins can purge the uploads/posts entirely with a button that’s right next to “delete”. I recommend keeping a local copy of media you want to keep.

Mostly the purge option is used for fucked up/illegal stuff, but can’t speak for every admin. Might be someone’s go-to button for deleting posts.

I’ll gladly help, but we consider 4 months still bit fresh - mind trying to contact the mod of that community first?

It’s just that consolidation towards a community that has more history is usually nicer than bumping into “most subscribers but no content” community for new users in my opinion. But yeah that’s my opinion and the reason why I want you to talk to the mod first if possible. But for sure we are trying to reduce the amount of communities that are not being moderated and I’ll help with that. :)

I… Uh… Might have been raised in a culture that is quite different from yours, but I’d say very abnormal.

Here’s a bit of context about these turkish ice cream sellers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_NjpeBqQw

I say if you plan to stick around and have patience to cultivate your community: do it.

If you don’t, then please don’t create them. You could join and post in existing communities that are close to those topics instead.

You are of course free to do as you will, but the reason I say don’t go for it if you don’t have the patience is because dead and unmoderated communities cause more issues than they solve.

Additionally: if you are new it’s possible some of the communities you are looking for already exist. Searching in https://lemmyverse.net/ might give you better results in case you are on a small instance.

Edit: I feel like I should elaborate: a community that is left unmoderated might end up with horrible content and the instance admin will be clueless until someone bumps into said content and reports it.

You could create your commmunities but lock them if you decide to ditch lemmy.

Awesome! Glad to hear! :)

Seems like lemmy.wtf posts are up again, can you login today?

That’s very possible! I mean as a user I also do like stability (had to instance hop quite a few times when I joined fediverse due to them shutting down) but also see resiliency and strenght in being able to spin up an instance of a platform we are all familiar with. When people leave reddit they don’t have similar alternatives with many users, but on lemmy/piefed we can always migrate and stay on the same platform with different rules and administrators.

Of course that’s simplifying the whole topic, but I’m not that worried about fediverse. But you are right of course that for new users who are on the edge already this might be a big dealbreaker. That’s why I always suggest bigger instances first. Once you are comfortable with fedi/threadiverse you can migrate to a smaller instance (I did exactly that once I figured out how this all works). I know lemm.ee shutting down probably made a noticable chunk of people give up on fediverse because we didn’t see any instance completely fill the void that lemm.ee’s weekly activity left.

This topic has had a lot of discussion, but backup plans are good indeed. Lemmy.wtf is small though, so I wouldn’t worry about it and I believe Meldrik is coming back :) what happened with feddit.de was tragic. I wonder if they ever found out what happened to the admin.

Just pinged @meldrik@lemmy.wtf on matrix. Seems like he’s been away from lemmy (or just not commenting) for a week.

Edit: was made aware that he’s away right now unfortunately :( hope he returns soon and resolves the issue!

That would be awesome!

Since the page doesn’t have about or info page I’ll add the link to the repo of threadiverse.link: https://github.com/RikudouSage/lemmyverse.link

I thought lemsha.re stopped working - guess not, that’s good news! And such a cool feature by the dev with the voyager link. Haven’t tried that feature out yet (voyager is my personal favourite lemmy app).