I'm interested in setting up a misskey instance, and have questions.
from Geodad@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 13:14
https://lemmy.world/post/37335145

I have an Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop that is currently not being used. Would that be good? Overkill? Under powered?

I use Debian for my main distro for my personal laptop. Would that be good? Should I have stable or a rolling release?

Is there anything special that I need to do on my home network setup? Create a DMZ perhaps?

This is my first self hosted project, so any information or advice is appreciated.

#selfhosted

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol on 14 Oct 13:23 next collapse

  1. The laptop is super overkill for just misskey.

  2. Debian is good.

  3. Do you want it to be accessible through a public domain? If so, how - there are many options, like cloudflare tunnels or dyndns.

Geodad@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 13:48 collapse

I have a lighter laptop that I could repurpose. It’s an ASUS with a celeron processor and 8GB of RAM.

I would like it to be accessible. I don’t like Cloudflare. I need to check dyndns and learn more about it.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 14 Oct 14:33 collapse

First you need to check if your ISP gives you a public IP (can be temporary, if you are fine with using dyndns). Otherwise you will need some tunneling service or run such yourself from a VPS.

Geodad@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 18:29 collapse

I’ll have to look into that. I’m lucky to live in an area with a municipal utility co-op.

mistermodal@lemmy.ml on 14 Oct 13:26 collapse

Which fork?

Geodad@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 13:50 collapse

I was reading the instructions for installation on the official misskey web site.

Is there a better fork?

mistermodal@lemmy.ml on 14 Oct 13:52 next collapse

Ask in the Sharkey Discord (sorry that’s the only place they are) if any better forks have arisen than Sharkey yet. They’ll be frank

zewm@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 14:11 collapse

I think iceshrimp might be another one?

fedidb.com/software/iceshrimp

ook@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 Oct 18:42 collapse

I thought iceshrimp has arisen from the ashes of firefish.

I swear the misskey fork lore must be hundreds of pages long by now.

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 14 Oct 14:35 collapse

joinsharkey.org seems to be the only one that survived so far.