I just spent 3 hours learning how to set up an instance.
What am i doing with my life :D (thanks rimu, sorry i bugged you like 10 times about this lol)
I'm not going to use this for spam btw, i just wanted to see how piefed works (so i can tinker around with it)
It took me a couple of days to get this one going. I was having dns problems of course. I have another standalone lemmy instance, but I'm considering going with a different platform as it's meant more as a local community thing.
Piefed's pretty cool, and it should work fine for your needs since there's no users on dullsters. I set this up for contributing to piefed, and a bigger side-project: getting a lemmy client to work with piefed, with as little modifications as possible. Currently my biggest problem is CORS. ;-;
I'm planning on keeping dullsters on lemmy. The other one is for the county I live in and will hopefully have users eventually. The goal is to make a non-political (dull) place for everyone to talk about things specific to the county. I have the instance running and a few people I know have done testing on it. I'm going to get some other static pages up with all the boilerplate rules. I also need to write community rules. I don't think the average user is ready to see the rest of the fediverse, but I do have an idea for yet another instance that could act as a bridge between the local one and the rest.
I've been learning Docker tonight! I'm used to someone else doing that kind so it's kind of a gap for me.
Eventually I would like to be able to run my own instances