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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by ericjmorey@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Anyone with experience using NixOS to create a Lemmy instance, please share any caveats and troubleshooting tips you have.

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[–] yiliu@informis.land 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FWIW, I'm running NixOS but gave up on running the Lemmy module. I gave up when I realized that Lemmy seems to need superuser access to the Postgresql server, to install plugins or whatever.

So instead, I used Arion to make a docker-compose image, running in podman. Works great so far.

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your experience.