Basically, I want to make one for some multiplayer games out there (along with Stoat communities, or something similar - what do y’all recommend? Bonus if it has voice chat).

What would I need, and how can I set this up safely without having my own network hacked beyond comprehension? I could do it off site from home too if that’s better.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4gb, but also an old DDR3 16gb desktop with a PCI network card available if that’s recommended.

  • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Disclaimer: I might be talking out of my ass here but this is how I think it works, to the best of my knowledge.

    The safest way would be to make an instance that only hosts the communities; it has no users and therefore federates no subscriptions of other communities who’s content you may need to police for stuff like CSAM that isn’t caught right away. You’d only need to monitor and moderate your own communities created on the instance.

    I’m not sure but you might need one account to be an admin/ moderator for the communities you create? Just don’t subscribe to any off-instance communities with it and it shouldn’t federate those posts.

    Folks on other communities will interact with it via someone from their instance subscribing to it; so discoverability might present an issue.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Revolt

      They got a C&D over the name and switched it to Stoat, which OP said they’ve tried before.

      I don’t get why they picked Stoat; it’s a terrible name, but it is what it is

      • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Didn’t know that. I agree it is a terrible name, but maybe that’s why it is safe from any cease and desist orders…

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I want to set up a Lemmy server too (currently still deciding between Lemmy and PieFed) to host some basic content that we create at a university group with the public. It’s more like a blog than anything else, at least as envisioned. I’d also like to add some cool features to it like auto-posting (i.e. we have a bot that automatically uploads certain posts).