jamesravey

I think it's a fair concern. We've seen other parts of the fediverse successfully implement crowd sourced funding via patron and similar to keep mastodon servers running and I suspect if Lemmy remains "the place to be" admins will have reasonable success with a similar model. Lemmy is super efficient and can support 100s of users on a single box so I think if 1% of users paid like $5 a month you could probably still support 99% of users "for free".

Yeah agreed, I felt like it just needs a but more intelligence to auto import and categorise data. They do have an auto import plugin that uses bank apis but it's tricky to set up and I always found it wasn't all that reliable. I might go back and make some contributions to that project one day.

I spent a lot of time setting up firefly-iii, a really neat and feature-rich finance manager. It's a really great piece of software by a very responsive and friendly dev but after about 6 weeks I still couldn't get used to it and ended up going back to paying for YNAB.

I swear by memos now though - highly recommended. It's like having a private twitter stream where you can send thoughts, notes and files that you want to store/refer back to.

Hey - I found the same thing WRT the docker files - the compose files from the official project are ever-so-subtly wrong.

Tagging a docker network as internal blocks outside network comms afaik so the default compose file essentially puts the lemmy server inside its own little sandbox and prevents it from communciating with other servers.

The solution I found was to add lemmy to both the internal network and the external proxy network:

## this is what the networks part looks like by default
networks:                                                                                                                                                   
  # communication to web and clients                                                                                                                        
  lemmyexternalproxy:                                                                                                                                       
  # communication between lemmy services                                                                                                                    
  lemmyinternal:                                                                                                                                            
    driver: bridge                                                                                                                                          
    internal: true            

#... other stuff here
#lemmy service inside your services: section
  lemmy:
    image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.3
    hostname: lemmy
    networks:
      - lemmyinternal
      - lemmyexternalproxy # this is the important addition
    restart: always
    environment:
      - RUST_LOG="warn,lemmy_server=info,lemmy_api=info,lemmy_api_common=info,lemmy_api_crud=info,lemmy_apub=info,lemmy_db_schema=info,lemmy_db_views=info,l
emmy_db_views_actor=info,lemmy_db_views_moderator=info,lemmy_routes=info,lemmy_utils=info,lemmy_websocket=info"
    volumes:
      - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson
    depends_on:
      - postgres
      - pictrs

Another thing I noticed was that in the documentation they bind nginx on port 80 but the docker-compose provided binds to port 8536 which is the default port that lemmy seems to listen on. I bound 8536 to my host machine and use caddy as a reverse proxy (because it does letsencrypt for you which is nice).

(Writing to you now from my self-hosted instance which I set up with the above notes)