Welcome, fellow refugee. I'm only lurking in these topics out of interest, I'm not in a position to host.

But you might find these communities interesting:

• !selfhost@lemmy.ml
• !selfhosted@lemmy.world
• !selfhosting@slrpnk.net
• !selfhosting_lemmy@lmmy.net

They are all about self hosting in general, not self hosting lemmy specifically. But lemmy is a topic among others. The last comm seems to be about specifically self hosting lemmy, but has no content (yet) from my point of view. Which I find sad, as I'm also mostly interested in self hosting lemmy as a topic.

There is a docker install guide in the docs.

Officially https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html

There is also this https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/tree/main

I rolled my own docker-compose.yml because I host other services using Caddy as well

I just set up my instance using the Ansible playbook. It takes a few manual configuration steps, and the rest is automatic provided you can SSH into the server and get root access.

Hi! First comment on Lemmy (or any social media.) I run bubblesthebunny.com off this repo: https://github.com/BubblesTheBunny/lemmy

It requires Digital Ocean and Cloudflare, but it works pretty well. I use a pretty small VM though, so if you're looking for something that can handle 1000s of users you'll need to modify it slightly.

I yoinked a ton from the https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible repo, so if you want to roll your own that's a good place to start.

The documentation should answer most of your questions.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/introduction.html

Does anybody know the hardware requirements? A RaspberryPi, some small VPS with 1 cpu and 1gb ram, or 4 core vps with 16 gb ram? Is the traffic cache-able by cloudflare?