Rule 3, this is not a community for Lemmy support. There are Lemmy support and Lemmy admin communities, try asking there.
Setup with docker is easy.
Performance is fantastic compared to the issues the most popular instances are having today.
Community syncing occurs in the background and is available to you through local instance. I don't know exactly how fast federated info syncs over, but seems reasonably fast in the last day I've played with it. For images, I think your client pulls the images from the original post link or original instance. Not really sure about that TBH.
HA is on you to set up.
Updates by docker should be easy moving to the latest image. However, there could be extra steps to update database structure. We'll have to see how that goes.
Yes I'm posting this through my own instance using wefwef app.
Thinking of the sync/federation speed. I saw your post here on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml maybe 10 mins after you posted it. So maybe the post synced over very quickly before I scrolled past it.
Wow, that's rad, thanks.
I had some trouble setting up with docker and getting everything to work. There is a setting that was not described, LEMMY_CORS_ORIGIN or something that needs to be set as a env var. Also make sure to have everything running with SSL.
And for initial federation your have to interact with your instance from the outside and give it some time.
That said, client speed is awesome now, no wait times for me.
I don't know much but one recent comment suggested that the users interacting with other communities causes those posts and communities to appear on the feed. If there are only two of you, I presume the only posts you'll see are those you both subscribed to (in server/all). Perhaps I'm wrong and 'all' will show up any old posts.
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