lemmy-ansible VS Reddit

I followed the documentation and it says there are two recommended ways to set it up, docker compose or Ansible automation script, i don't know how to use docker so i chosen the second method, basically you just install Ansible on your local machine, and copy paste commands on its github page, then you have it. I think the docker method is even simper because from what i heard it's designed to easily deploy services

Hello, please bear with me as I have almost no experience with this. I am setting up a lemmy instance, and using the ansible instructions found here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

perform steps 1-4 of the instructions at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible.git

Based on its functionality and UI, I'd really like for FlingUp to succeed. It looks like the best reddit alternative that's currently available.

But if it's just going to descend into being another Voat, I'm not going to bother encouraging my communities to switch over. We're all familiar with what invariably happens to forums / social media sites that have no restrictions on what type of speech is allowed.

Lemmy is looking like a viable alternative. According to this[0] page running your own instance is pretty light on resources, and they have an official Ansible playbook install option[1].

And, whereas with FlingUp I have no control over their moderation policies, with Lemmy I can set the moderation policies for the instance and defederate any other instances as needed.

0. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration...

1. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

The ansible documentation appeared to work pretty well, while the docker documentation did not. I had to setup an ansible control server though which is an extra set of steps.

Like to Ansible, if you want to host your own. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

Here is sample nginx config file provided by the lemmy devs

Give this and this a check. Unless you're a developer you're better off copying someone else's open source alternative than trying to build one from the scratch.

Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :

I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.

Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/

Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)

Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit