[Done - for now...] Expect some brief restarts today (Jun 12 CET)
I'm trying to fix this annoying slowness when posting to larger communities. (Just try replying here...)
I'll be doing some restarts of the docker stack and nginx.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Edit: Well I've changed the nginx from running in a docker container to running on the host, but that hasn't solved the posting slowness..
Since I have you here, if I start my own instance do I absolutely have to use docker? I've never had good experiences with it and would rather just install programs the old-fashioned way
Well if they can create a docker image out of it, you should be able to install it on a VM.. but I run it in Docker because it makes everything so easy manageable...
Of course you can fully adapt it to your own use case. The Lemmy backend is a single binary, you don't even need to build it on the same machine which will run it. There's no hard requirement to use nginx or anything like that either - if you understand what this guide is doing, you can replace all the unimportant parts as needed.