If you think this post would be better suited in a different community, please let me know.
Topics could include (this list is not intending to be exhaustive — if you think something is relevant, then please don’t hesitate to share it):
- Moderation
- Handling of illegal content
- Server structure (system requirements, configs, layouts, etc.)
- Community transparency/communication
- Server maintenance (updates, scaling, etc.)
I’ve never hosted a public facing social media service. I have a few years experience hosting a number of my own personal services, but they aren’t at the scale of a public facing Lemmy instance.
You should be good as long as you know PostgreSQL
Aha, well, it depends on what you mean by “know”.