I'm trying to get Lemmy up and running on an Ubuntu 22.04 host. I've followed this guide supplemented by googling.

I can actually get to the front end, but it gives me "There was an error on the server." When I dig into the logs, I see this:

"thread 'main' panicked at 'Error connecting to postgres://lemmy:<my pg password>@postgres:5432/lemmy: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user \"lemmy\"\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2023-06-26T03:14:17.47460915Z"}

The only thing I can find about this error related to Lemmy is this thread, which indicates that the password was not defined in the docker-compose.yml file prior to starting the containers. I have since redone the configuration three times, each time deleting the volumes folder and double-checking that my postgre password is correct both in docker-compose.yml and lemmy.hjson.

Any ideas what might be the problem? Thank you kindly for any help you can provide!

Does anybody have any ideas for some decorative but functional lighting to go above my computer monitor?

I've noticed that my image on Zoom calls is fairly dark, and I think some lighting on the wall above my monitor would help. However, the standard utilitarian webcam lighting (like the ring) aren't really what I want to be looking at all day.

Any and all ideas are welcome!

Is there a reason we're not Federated with https://lemmit.online?

I'd like to subscribe to the Home Assistant community there.

I would occasionally pop into the LiveSound and AudioEngineering subreddits. Is there any interest in hosting those here? They seem to fit in with the theme of this server. Just a thought!