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Nah, part of the playbook sets up the initial Lets Encrypt certificate… so DNS needs to point to the new VPS. And the hostname needs to match the existing instance as it is referenced in the database.
Doesn’t matter now anyway, I went a different route :)
Thats what the “docker-compose down” is for in the second step :)
I’ve found email verification is finnicky to say the least. The Lemmy UI has some issues with users being stuck with spinning icons at various points for a start.
In the back end… email is a pain. If you’re using a public cloud VM and using the Lemmy provided docker/ansible postfix image, your users are unlikely to receive the verification emails as your server’s IP address is likely n a DNSBL somewhere.
If you use a third party SMTP service you may have more luck… but even then you’ll likely have issues.
I’ve disable email verification for these reasons, and rely on the answer to the signup question to vet applicants.
Thats a different issue to what I encountered. For me the nginx docker config had a reference to the host nginx config… I had no nginx installed so “docker-compose up” failed.
Then yes, as I said… no users on sopuli.xyz have subscribed to your community yet: Suomi@suppo.fi - 0 subscribers
Other replies here have provided more info :)
Content for communities you’ve created on your instance will only be visible on other instances if a user there has subscribed to the community.
Or do you mean yours posts to communities homed to other instances do not show up?
In the UI? Not that I know of. From the database… sure:
docker exec -it <instancename>_postgres_1 sh
psql -U lemmy -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -d lemmy
SELECT * from local_user;
If your VPS is purely for Lemmy, I’d suggest blowing it away and using the ansible playbook referenced here. I found the current docker-compose does not function, there are broken references to external nginx configs.
As others have said, Jerboa is for android… I’ve heard mention of “mlem” for IOS, but have not seen it myself.
Sure, its a bit wordy… lacking in images with step by step instructions. If I had time I’d put something together with screenshots and figure out git and submit a pull request… maybe eventually.
Currently you have to start over.
The icon on the left is “context”, on your home instance. On the right is the “fediverse” link, which takes you to the home instance of the poster.
Basically the same thing, one is local the other remote.
At least that is how I’ve come to understand them.
…that would defeat almost the entire point of being federated and decentralized.
Surprisingly… its better than I had hoped for. I’m ~6-8 hours in, level 23 or so… and its been great.
Yeah sounds like an issue on your instance… not sure exactly what. I’m on my own instance, see multiple comments here from @jonah@lemmy.one and yourself.
Not sure I’d say “careful”… more of “don’t get too comfortable”. As the dust clears I’d expect some/many of the new instances to shutdown. Likely due to hitting server resource limits, or admin motivation limits :)
Is there a newbie guide written up already somewhere? This is exactly the sort of things it needs, which should be linked to new signups.
A couple of hours maybe. I’m pretty familiar with the tech, if you aren’t it will take longer.
Worth noting, the current docker-compose referenced on the Lemmy site is non-functional. I couldn’t be bothered fixing the supplied nginx setup, so just ran with the ansible playbook instead.
I didn’t, I spun up an entirely new instance.