I have tried the docker, ansible, and scratch methods. I have been troubleshooting for a month now. I have gotten nowhere. I need someone to help walk me through how to deploy a lemmy server because the guides are absolute trash.
Please help. I’m wasting money running this VPS and for literally nothing.
Edit: So, I’ve tried the ansible method, but I can’t access my server this way. It just keeps saying “UNREACHABLE”. I have generated a dozen keys, none of them work. I have NO PROBLEMS with ssh in Putty. I can use Putty all day. Putty works fine using my ssh key. Ansible does not. No amount of new keys has made any difference. I have countless keys in my stupid droplet because of this hacky garbage.
That’s your problem. Putty does keys differently to normal ssh.
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So, why can’t you install lemmy? I’m going to assume you’re using ubuntu. If you are willing to swap to arch (which I think DO offers), I recommend it. Get an AUR helper installed (a bit of hassle, I like trizen) and install lemmy from AUR. You’ll need to bump the commit unless you like 0.17.3. I’ll be doing that tonight so I can post relevant bits. If not, post errors.
Or just keep doing containers so you can have weird and wonderful errors like no dns.
Why does every Linux problem solution involve installing a different distro
It’s just that ubuntu, and everything in the debian family, sucks massive ass, and few people acknowledge it.
Apparently including the people who developed Lemmy who chose to recommend Ubuntu…
There is a disturbingly large number of people that haven’t figured out how much ubuntu sucks.