I have an idea (not sure if it’s a good or bad one) that has been bouncing around my head for a while like an itch that I can’t properly scratch. Would like to set up a PieFed community to try it, or possibly an Mbin one, I am not sure it would be as workable in Lemmy. But can any of them be setup from scratch and run without mnowing any coding? Thanks
System administration is a different skill than software coding, although there is some overlap. You should be technically minded and detail oriented, willing to read documentation and tutorials closely, and have the curiosity to dig into related details that you don’t understand. In many ways it’s “just” configuring and running software on a Linux server, but there are lots of details underneath all that (hosting, DNS, backups, security, etc). Of course it’s also then managing users as an instance admin, and presiding over deeply held opposing community views like whether to enable downvotes.
Edit: based on another comment I reread your question and maybe you’re just asking about creating a new community on an existing instance, not hosting your own instance. If so, then my above answer is irrelevant, sorry. Creating a community is very straightforward, you just have to be willing to be the head moderator and deal with everything that entails.
Thanks, yep I may may have mistitled communites over instances…
OP, did you get the answers to your questions? It seems like there was a bit of confusion if you meant a community or an instance.
An instance is the whole server, like for example feddit.uk or lemmy.world, or piefed social. Each instance contains many communities. For this you need to do some installing and configuring on a server that you buy or rent.
A community is like a “subreddit”, that runs on an instance. Devoted to some subject or general idea like news, knitting, or cats. This you need no programming or systems administration to do, it’s all clicking in a browser.
Thanks, yeah I think I mislabeled instance. I thought instance was the term Lemmy used and Community was the term used in PieFed.
I’m thinking of something along the lines of an old style forum. Sub categories underneath the main forum heading.
Similar to something like this. https://piefed.social/topics
I’m confused. Are we talking about communities or instances?
Regarding PieFed, I believe a community. Lemmy instances wouldn’t really suit what I have in mind. But if I’m beong honest, I haven’t given a lot of thought to which is called what.
Something like this is what I am thinking.
lemmy instance == piefed instance
lemmy community == piefed communitythis asklemmy thing is a community
the topics are a different thing though, I think you need to request the admins to assign your community to a topic.
There is no coding required. All you need to do is run some Linux commands.
To set up a community on an existing instance?
Not even that.
I set up two communities by accident on my way to the bathroom while replying to this comment.
Hopefully shitpost ones
