Like many others, I'm migrating from reddit to Lemmy. I figured it would be more fun to host a Lemmy instance myself, but I don't want to manage uptime on a VPS... and Kubernetes seemed a little too heavy for the task at hand.
So, I wrote a tool that lets you quickly create a Lemmy instance on fly.io. It's pretty naive but it will get you started and it should just work:tm:.
Note I'm not sure if this fits in fly.io's free tier. I had to up the size of the postgres database and pict-rs host to 512MB, but I anticipate it being pretty cheap at least.
Considering their ideology, the security flaws in Lemmy make me even more suspicious.