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@lemmy.lpcha.imSo it sounds to me like you may have to deal with a IPv4 only address behind CGNAT, which makes port forwarding not work anymore. It's how my connection is set up, but luckily it does fully support IPv6 and that doesn't require any forwarding so I make do.
If IPv6 isn't an option for you or you'd like to access your services from IPv4 only networks, I'd just go with Tailscale myself. I've been a happy user for years and it just works so well, should be good in your situation as well.
I used to self host all of my services at the time (Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett) on Windows before I built a dedicated server, and it worked surprisingly well. I basically just enabled WSL2, installed Ubuntu and pointed Docker Desktop at that, from there on it was pretty much just logging into Ubuntu and going about my business as usual. Don't recall any major issues during the 2+ years I had that setup going.
There are minor oddities and incompatibilities when it comes to networking (off the top of my head, host networking doesn't work iirc and the Docker host IP alias is different). The main thing is I'm not sure how easy that would be to setup in a remote SSH only environment or if it's even doable or allowed but it was quite simple to set up locally.
Right, that's totally fair. I guess I just think it's such a critical step when it comes to onboarding and user friendliness it could definitely use some extra polish.
In my very limited experience with my personal instance, I've had to give federation time for it to start working as expected. When I started out, sometimes I wouldn't find posts or my comments wouldn't show on the instance a post came from and whatnot, don't notice that anymore. Could easily be something wonky on my end though, I'm not sure.
One thing that I still find extremely confusing and unintuitive is searching for a not yet federated community doesn't return any results, but also immediately makes the community visible in the "all" view if it does indeed exist. I was under the impression it'd just show the community link there and then so I assumed it was broken for the longest time, for all I know that's actually how it's supposed to go and I still have something broken somewhere lol.
As someone who's used pretty much every solution out there at some point, I have thoughts on the main contenders:
I personally favor Caddy these days, but they're all solid choices.
Not specific to Lemmy but ubuntu's weird snap version of docker has given me random issues in the past, perhaps that could be the issue. Installing docker by following the official instructions means you are guaranteed to get a fully functional install and that's one variable you wouldn't have to worry about at least.
Edit: Forgot to mention but I'm running it on docker myself, I just followed the official documentation and whatnot. Using a debian 11 based LXC on Proxmox.
You and me both, I've used the reddit one for about a decade and it effectively was reddit as far as I'm concerned. Lemmy's PWA is nice enough but I'll be giddy to get back into the familiar flow.
I gotta say, upon closer inspection Yunohost looks way more elegant and complete a solution than I was picturing. Figured it'd mostly be premade apps ready to install but there's also built-in LDAP + email, let's encrypt certificates, integrated security features, the list goes on and on. If the execution is even remotely as smooth as the documentation suggests, Yunohost sounds great!
Damn, that's as fascinating as it is daunting. Some impressive dedication in there regardless!