Y’all should try it! I loved seeing it popping on other instances’ /instances page, and seeing it polling other communities. Also changing the background in my theme was lit.
Lemmy’s hosting documentation is a bit rough around the edges, especially the ARM situation (and its contemporary solution), so I had some extra tinkering to do. No shade at all yeah? I appreciate every bit of their work and I jotted down some points that I need to consolidate into a documentation PR soon.
Anyway, I feel like the extra on our usernames should be worn as a badge of honor you feel me? ;)
I would love to do this but I’m afraid of exposing my home IP to the world of spammer and what not. Did you selfhost on a cloud provider or did you do it from your home ? How crazy does the security need to be around Lemmy instance ? I really feel like it’s a beacon of come hack me if you can!
One method that many people use to hide their IP address of their host is to use Cloudflare for DNS, that way you don’t directly expose your IP address to the wider internet. A nice bonus to Clouldflare is that it’s free too! Just get yourself a domain, get Cloudflare set up to provide DNS for it and you’re golden.
Wow, I’ll look into this, thanks !
Cloudflare tunnels! I use it to expose my nextcloud server to the internet. Works flawlessly.
I ended up getting a cheap VPS to use for Lemmy and Matrix for exactly that reason. They didn’t want to play well with Cloudflare proxy, so the VPS was the easiest solution.
I just rented a VPS from Hetzner because that’s the workflow I’m already familiar with. Lowest tier, 5$, and since it’s ARM it’s also beefy enough to never need an upgrade I hope :P