I’m thinking about self-hosting my own Lemmy server and I probably have too many questions than answers. But maybe some simple ones… do server owners get to set the amount of days a post can be retained before it’s deleted or are there defaults baked into the software package?

Can server owners restrict image sizes or the number of images that can be uploaded?

Can a server owner restrict the creation of new communities? I’m curious how granular permissions can get.

Would I be better off hosting my own instance to get some of these questions answered? 😁

Thanks in advance!

  • Matt The HorwoodEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I run my own server, not sure on post retention or image size or even number of images. But you can make it so that only you can make communities, you can even make communities admin post only.

    I would give the docs a good read and maybe have a look at the GitHub repos