Let’s say I decided that instead of blogging, I wanted to host my own Lemmy instance that contained a maximum of one (1) user– me, but allowing other users to subscribe.
To show what I’m talking about, look at how kaidomac uses Reddit as his own personal microblog, which people subscribe to.
What is the cheapest way to do this?
My mental model of Lemmy is that if I were to do this, the instance would still be caching information from other instances. This would– at least in my mine– add up in costs.
I’m a software engineer, so feel free to use technical jargon.
The problem for me is I believe you need to open your network firewall for Lemmy and other federated services to work right?
Not really a fan of opening up more attack surface on my home network
It also works through reverse proxies.
Is that not essentially the same issue as opening your firewall though? You’re still taking requests from outside your network into your network without any authentication until they actually hit the server