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Is there a way I can easily set up my own federated instance for free or no? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to join the Fediverse. I don’t have a computer or anything to make something like a Lemmy instance, and I found that NodeBB will easily allow you to make a forum quickly, but I have to pay to do so. Should I just pay when I can or is there a free way to make a federated instance on a software?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are free tiers for some cloud providers, like Oracle (though personally I recommend against using anything Oracle ever).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I use Oracle fo No Lastname Needed, and it works well (although I have out grown the free tier), but I would NOT recommend them for a newbie to hosting as it's a very complex eco-system compared to just a cheap VPS

Oracle is evil
Google is evil
AWS is evil...