(I’m the dev of Alexandrite) Officially there isn’t yet a way to self-host it without modifying the code (unless you host it on one of a few specific cloud providers like the official Alexandrite site does), but now that people are self hosting anyway I think adding support for it is going to be higher up on my priority list!

I never had considered before a few days ago that someone would host Alexandrite alongside their instance so it never occurred to me that someone might first interact with Lemmy through Alexandrite. I will definitely add registration!

Hey, out of curiosity, how do you host the official instance? Is it just running on a VPS or some other static site host?

I ask because I’m the dev of another alternate web UI (but for desktop) called Alexandrite, and I’m hoping to refactor and move Lemmy API calls from the server to the client in the near future to avoid scaling issues with rate limits and I’m just exploring my options for hosting if I were to not have a hard dependency on SSR.

Alexandrite has a typo in the name! (I’m the creator btw)