I leaned no one on Lemmy are as helpful as they seem. Nor as nice… I gave up on trying to run my own instance… My life is too busy and hard to find time for this anyway…

As frustrating as that would be, it wouldn’t be permanent I know they’re very serious with backups. A roll back is annoying but not really that damaging.

Thanks! Now I get it.

I ended up just starting over…

I’m sorry, that went over my head… i’m as new at this as you can be…

i don’t see the database mentioned in that file

The hostname for your instance

Do NOT put http:// or https://

ONLY put your domain here. Subdomains are ok.

LEMMY_HOSTNAME=“atosoul.zapto.org”

If you use Cloudflare, your Cloudflare API token. Otherwise leave blank.

If present, the DNS-01 challenge will be used to obtain valid HTTPS certificates

–> If you use the Cloudflare Proxy, DO NOT FORGET to enable Cloudflare’s Full (Strict) SSL mode! <–

This token must have access to edit the Zone where $LEMMY_HOSTNAME is

Using this option will increase build time, as the DNS plugin needs to be compiled. Subsequent deploys will be faster.

CF_API_TOKEN=“”

Whether or not to build Lemmy from source rather than use the Docker Hub images

This will significantly increase deploy time!

BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=“false”

The name of your Lemmy instance, will be displayed on the site header (only used during first-time setup)

If you use special characters, please backslash-escape them.

SETUP_SITE_NAME=“AtoSoul”

###############################################################

SETTINGS FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY

I CANNOT HELP YOU WITH ISSUES RELATED TO THESE SETTINGS

###############################################################

The external port to use for Caddy’s port 80

CADDY_HTTP_PORT=80

The external port to use for Caddy’s port 443

CADDY_HTTPS_PORT=443

If true/1, also deploy the postfix server and configure Lemmy to send emails

NOTE: Port 25 is USUALLY disabled on most server providers. For this reason, the email service is not well tested

Feedback on the email service is appreciated!

USE_EMAIL=“false”

If true/1, prefix the Caddy host block with http:// to disable TLS entirely

CADDY_DISABLE_TLS=“false”

The options below will be passed directly to lemmy.hjson

See that file for how they will be used

Remember to backslash escape any special characters!

POSTGRES_POOL_SIZE=“5” TLS_ENABLED=“true” SETUP_ADMIN_USER=“lemmy” LEMMY_NOREPLY_DISPLAY=“Lemmy NoReply” LEMMY_NOREPLY_FROM=“noreply”

i’m so sorry but i still don’t understand…

root@laptop:/home/rain# docker exec -ti lemmy_postgresql_1 bash
Error response from daemon: No such container: lemmy_postgresql_1

here is the guide i followed that got me to this point… and then i checked that box with out understanding what i was doing…

Thank you for your response, but can you explain like I’m five? Lol

I don’t know what you mean by connect to my database, I’m really new to this stuff, this is all really above my head.

I’m glad that helped!

It’s actually pretty straight forward once someone takes the time to explain it. I’ll try.

These ! Links are supposed to be universal I think. !futurama@lemmy.world

Then there’s the long URL, https://lemmy.ml/c/futurama@lemmy.world

First you start with your instance then /c/ just like Reddit did with r/ it means you’re looking for a community, then an @ to target another instance.

In this example I started at lemmy.ml told it I was looking for a community, then told it where the that community lives in this case lemmy.world

When searching for a community by URL use the website only. No apps currently support it yet I think.

Edit: you can also just do it in the URL like this

https://lemmy.world/c/catsubs@kbin.social

!catsubs@kbin.social

This is really interesting. But how well does it actually work? I’m attempting a personal server on a Raspberry pi right now but the compiling is taking a huge amount of time.

I have no idea what cross compiling is but I’m open to trying it.

I’m thinking that I should probably let it ride. Maybe it’ll work. It’s not like I’ve got better plans for that little computer.

I wish I could. The whole computer is completely frozen! Just the mouse will nudge a little very very slowly. I don’t think I can get another terminal open. And yes it’s very slow hardware. It’s a raspberry pi 3.

I’m not sure. I know lemmy.ml has been up and down ever since the Reddit blackout.