NixOS and Lemmy

FWIW, I'm running NixOS but gave up on running the Lemmy module. I gave up when I realized that Lemmy seems to need superuser access to the Postgresql server, to install plugins or whatever.

So instead, I used Arion to make a docker-compose image, running in podman. Works great so far.

Oh hello, my instance is on NixOS!
There's a NixOS module for lemmy, but it's kind of broken right now and in the middle of a PR. If you want, you can replace the current nix package with the one from the fork, and successfully deploy it, however, if I were you, I'd just wait a week or so.

The configuration right now requires a bunch of hacks, and even doing some non-reproducible stuff.