Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It’s probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn’t apologize at all). Allegedly they’re trying to suppress Lemmy mentions but I guess it’s not working well enough lol
A good problem to have although long term we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with these spikes in traffic.
This was enough for me to start my own instance. It’s not too hard with ansible, and Lemmy being Rust it’s not needing that much CPU or RAM.
And I’ll invite my friends here too. If you’re capable of running your own server, do it for your friends. Form small communities and you can always subscribe to the big server communities from your own service.
There should be a thread for this(starting a instance)
Here, I started one: https://lemmy.ml/post/1201750
Don’t ban lemmygrad and we’ll be happy.
That’ll give me a use for my TrueNAS server that’s for sure. It’s got 24 cores 200gb of RAM and I basically use it exclusively for a NAS.
Now I just have to look into how to set it up.
As long as you get a public IP address, a domain name and TLS certificate, you can federate with other servers.
I run mine in a small Hetzner box. Two gigabytes of RAM, two AMD cores, it’s almost like doing nothing even I’m federating a ton of messages all the time regarding the logs.