I’m thinking about setting up my own (bare metal) Lemmy instance to play around with it, but it seems to require PostgreSQL. Everything else on my system uses MySQL, and I don’t really want to run 2 separate database services. I guess I would also be fine with using an SQLite file, but that’s not ideal.
Has anyone managed to set up a Lemmy instance with MySQL instead of PostgreSQL? Are you aware of any PostgreSQL to MySQL or SQLite compatibility layers?
Honestly, if you are just wanting to try it out you’ll want to do it on a fresh system. It isn’t a simple task and you risk crippling your other services if you don’t know what you are doing.
It’s also in very, very early development and you are putting your system at risk by running with anything else you care about.