EDIT: I've been researching this the best I can for some time now. The most common suggestion is to make sure that the Dockerfile is spelled correctly in the docker-compose.yml. It is.
Am I supposed to be creating a Dockerfile and fill it with some information? Is this intentionally left unaddressed by the guide for docker install? Is there some prerequisite I'm not fulfilling that the guide doesn't address?
its actually even easier than that. Just do git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git, cd into lemmy/docker, make the config changes you need, then run docker-compose up -d