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First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just try not to get ddosed ok m8?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I definitely have a lot to learn in terms of self-hosting self-defense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you running for your firewall? I've been curious about self hosting a Lemmy instance (currently have a few services like Plex, Minecraft, pihole, etc) but do worry about security

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome! Another fellow self-hoster checking in ✅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hello from my personal instance, and welcome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the club.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nice work!

Greetings from my instance 😄

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nice work and welcome to the club!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This sounds like a fun project to be honest. Are there any risks involved by getting bad content through federation that’s out of your control?

Just a week or so ago I read an article about a guy running a tor exit node personally and being held responsible for the traffic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

If you block porn-related instances suchas lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, you'll drastically reduce your chance of getting CSAM contents on your instance. Not saying those instances promotes that kind of stuff, but many dubious instances (the ones with kiddie/doll banners) federate with them, and might post bad stuff when the mods aren't looking.

If you're still super worried about it, you can host your instance behind cloudflare and enable their CSAM scanning tool.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also joined the club today :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is e-mail working properly for you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. I have a residential connection with a dynamic IP, so the trick for me was to use an SMTP relay with a trustworthy provider. That said, I don't really use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i did the same thing using fastmail but the emails either come not at all or super delayed, would you mind sharing your provider?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not open to the public unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hello from another self hosted instance! Also using Lemmy Community Seeder to populate my All feed and help in discovering new communities. Lemmy Community Seeder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

feddit.ie checking in!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Great work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You did it! Hello, and welcome to the club. Lemmy has been my first foray into hosting a site on a VPS and it's been quite the rabbit-hole; for the better of course. I hope you have fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why does Kirk climb a mountain?

Because it's there!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For fun, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nice work :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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