Hello!
I have decided self-host an instance as a little side project because I really like the concept of lemmy.
I am a scientist by profession and a naturalist basically since birth, so I have decided nature and science to be the focus of my instance.
The website is https://mander.xyz
I have enabled open federation, so if anyone wants to federate, let’s do it! The more the merrier :-)
EDIT: I decided today to rent a small VM server to host the instance, rather than hosting it from my home computer. So it should remain stable.
Post links of your self-hosted instances of Lemmy!
"There are no trackers and I don’t keep any kind of logs. I am running an almost identical version of lemmy as lemmy.ml using docker, I only slightly modified one of the themes on the lemmy-ui. The e-mails and the private messages are not encrypted, so if someone has access to the server they would be able to see them. Passwords are hashed. My policy is that I don’t look into any private information. If someone posts something illegal enough for the authorities to contact me (human trafficking, child pornography, etc) I would collaborate with them however I can, but this is a special and very unlikely case.
I will make an effort to keep the instance running for a while, but I don’t want to make guarantees about keeping it up for a determined amount of time. I am running the instance because I want to participate on Lemmy via my own instance, and I am also happy to allow others to make account on this instance. But if the instance were to be brigaded I might choose to make the instance private because I am not so keen on spending a lot of time moderating."
About the last comment about brigading: Lemmy did end up being brigaded shortly after I sent you that message. Luckily the admins provided a simple solution: new users need to send a short message and I have to manually approve them. This helps mitigate the impact of brigades. So for the time being new registrations at mander will also require an ‘application’.
Good enough solution!