Hey all I have no idea what I’m doing here trying to set up a Lemmy instance. I’ve made simple servers before but nothing like the setup needed for this especially surrounding email verification.
I’m like 10 tutorials deep and on day 3 of trying to figure out what is going on with Postfix. There are so many words and acronyms being thrown around I don’t even know what I’m looking at anymore let alone knowing what the right questions to ask would be.
Very likely I’m going to nuke my droplet this weekend to make sure I have a fresh start with no half-baked solutions competing with each other. Would someone be willing to set up a time with me this weekend on Discord or something and baby step me through how to get this thing up and running?
Docker works for lots of simple things. But deploying Lemmy isn’t simple at all. It looks like it was never meant to be deployed with Docker. It’s a giant mess and can’t be integrated properly in an already set up and running Docker environment.
You need to manually create all images and container files by yourself or deploy Lemmy into an own VM running Docker where it can abuse Docker and clutter all over the place as much as it wants.