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

  • yiliu@informis.land
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    1 year ago

    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.