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?
Why are you trying to set up an instance? What’s your use-case?
They want to start an instance for star wars fans because they like captain picard. :)
Two main reasons: I think having granular instances is better for the fediverse instead of relying on a couple super instances to handle everything, and also I just want to because figuring out how to do stuff like this is neat even if sometimes stressful.