Lemmy Onion Service

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform.

I made this git repo for personal use for testing purposes.

New Lemmy instance

Follow these instructions to start a new Lemmy instance using Linux and Docker.

Note that federation is not supported and there's no email server.

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/salif/lemmy-onion-service.git
cd ./lemmy-onion-service/

Use mkp224o to generate vanity address. Then run:

# mkp224o
mkdir -p ./volumes/lemmytor/

change 'example.onion' to generated address

cp example.onion/* ./volumes/lemmytor/

sudo chown -R 100:100 ./volumes/lemmytor
sudo chmod -R u+rwX,og-rwx ./volumes/lemmytor
mkdir volumes/pictrs
sudo chown -R 991:991 ./volumes/pictrs

and

cp ./templates/.env .env

Edit .env file (domain is in volumes/lemmytor/hostname) and run:

cp ./templates/nginx_internal.conf nginx_internal.conf
cp ./templates/lemmy.hjson lemmy.hjson
source .env
sed -i -e "s/_SED_1/$domain/g" lemmy.hjson
sed -i -e "s/_SED_2/$postgres_password/g" lemmy.hjson
sed -i -e "s/_SED_1/$domain/g" nginx_internal.conf

Start it:

sudo docker-compose up -d

See also

• join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html
• join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/tor_hidden_service.html