Yo - absolutely!

WG easy posts the GUI on a separate port than the primary Wireguard port you’d need to open in the firewall. I think it’s 51821 - but this can easily be changed depending on if you’re using docker-compose files or a gui like portainer to manage this.

In my case - I am using Nginx Proxy Manager - and it even has it’s own basic password requirement “Access List” availability. With NPM I’m routing that gui over vpn (local dns) but you could put it behind a password with limite security via Access List, or the step beyond look into “middleware” like Keycloak.

I am glad to see more people selfhosting their own. Makes me feel less out. Had the same issues.

I have so far been able to access and post on everyone else’s instance from my own. I do struggle with searching but I’ve considered that to be due to the large amount of people. Example was when beehaw crashed the other day.

So far, it’s been simple enough.

I believe I’ve had to put them in there if I wanted them to be easily searchable. It did seem I could access another instance but that mine didn’t have any interest in collecting data until that was put in.

A very valid question I am also interested in knowing. I’m wondering how much management it will be for me - who created his own instance and am having to find all the other communities myself. Or if my instance is doing anything but providing me a unique instance address and name.

I haven’t tried, but I imagine federating will be a hassle without a clear way for the other services to exchange responses.

Proxmox at home xD

I agree, which is why I offered no solution as of yet… I suppose best we have right now is resounding opinion of ‘most liked’ in a thread. I suppose that would lean itself to revealing the idea which holds the highest consensus.

In some tech groups, it may become feasible for malicious actors to feign intelligence, and that’s partly what I’m hoping this slowly curtails. Use of LLM and the rest in our discourse.

While I’m immediately tempted to request to be made a mod, I’m going to wait a day or so and see how frequently other new members start posting.

This is my day one, so not ideal for me to make any assertions or claims. I do enjoy the spirit that we have though so far.

I would be curious if there might be a way to give some sort of “attribute of credibility” that we could come up with.

I wonder if we could petition Lemmy.ml to make the adjustment? I’m not positive how the mod roles function just yet.

It cost me nothing really to add the instance but I’ve yet to add a bunch of people talking and communicating - thus filling my drives… In the past I used the Matrix protocol and while it’s entirely different I think for a moderate community we should be able to last a good year on a TB if we has some reasonable limitations on size.

I concur and am actively researching this issue as well. I, for example created my own instance but am not entirely sure I should be the one to host yet another Selfhosted community. I am hoping for a dominate 2/3 of them to win out, preferably lemmy.ml as it was the first I discovered. Alas, you asked a very pertinent question that I think you should keep searching to find. I did see the owner on Lemmy.world actually responding to his thread…

We should absolutely instill the desire to keep this community alive though.

I will be happy to share and keep people up to date with my projects over on my Lemmy Instance among other places. Please feel free to write anytime!