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            <h1>Host Your Own Reddit Alternative with Lemmy in Docker</h1>
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          <h2>What is Lemmy?</h2>

<blockquote><em>Lemmy is an open-source, federated link aggregator similar to Reddit and built with Rust.</em></blockquote>

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	<li>Log into the host device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in terminal
	<div class="codeBlock"># install docker and docker-compose<br />
	sudo apt install docker docker-compose docker.io<br />
	# create a working directory<br />
	sudo mkdir lemmy &amp;&amp; cd lemmy/<br />
	# download the container files<br />
	sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/main/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml<br />
	sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/main/docker/lemmy.hjson<br />
	sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/main/docker/iframely.config.local.js<br />
	# create pictrs directory<br />
	sudo mkdir -p volumes/pictrs<br />
	sudo chown -R 991:991 volumes/pictrs<br />
	# edit docker-compose.yml<br />
	sudo nano docker-compose.yml</div>
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	<li>Scroll down to the POSTGRES_PASSWORD line and enter a secure password</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to docker-compose.yml</li>
	<li>Continue with the following command
	<div class="codeBlock">sudo nano lemmy.hjson</div>
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	<li>Press CTRL + W and search for database</li>
	<li>Scroll down to the database password and update the value to match the value set in docker-compose.yml earlier</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to lemmy.hjson</li>
	<li>Run the following command to start the Lemmy Docker container
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:1235</li>
	<li>Log into Lemmy with the username and password lemmy</li>
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