Whether you are a Reddit refugee (I am one) or just randomly stumbled upon Lemmy and decided to join lemmy.world, welcome to the Fediverse.

If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.

We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.

  • MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.winEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    My steps were:

    1. Sign up for free Google cloud VM instance
    2. Buy a $3 domain name from Cloudflare
    3. Install with Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
    4. Change Cloudflare to “Strict”
    5. Log in
      • MarsAgainstVenus@fedimav.winEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, I don’t even know. It was in the advanced settings on Lemmy-Easy-Deploy and I missed it and spent like 2 hours troubleshooting until I saw that, lol.

        .win is a $3 domains on Cloudflare and shouldn’t have issues of being revoked (like .ml is going through and others could potentially face).

        • randomguy2323@lemmy.kevitprojects.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh yeah I just read about cloudfare strict but I think thats only if you proxied the request through cloudfare servers , if you just point the domain to the server I dont think you need to do that.