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I just spent 3 hours learning how to set up an instance.
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It took me a couple of days to get this one going. I was having dns problems of course. I have another standalone lemmy instance, but I'm considering going with a different platform as it's meant more as a local community thing.
Piefed's pretty cool, and it should work fine for your needs since there's no users on dullsters. I set this up for contributing to piefed, and a bigger side-project: getting a lemmy client to work with piefed, with as little modifications as possible. Currently my biggest problem is CORS. ;-;
I'm planning on keeping dullsters on lemmy. The other one is for the county I live in and will hopefully have users eventually. The goal is to make a non-political (dull) place for everyone to talk about things specific to the county. I have the instance running and a few people I know have done testing on it. I'm going to get some other static pages up with all the boilerplate rules. I also need to write community rules. I don't think the average user is ready to see the rest of the fediverse, but I do have an idea for yet another instance that could act as a bridge between the local one and the rest.