I recently got my hands on a lightly used Raspberry Pi 5 and have been playing around with it and breaking things while trying to learn my way around self hosting. I have a a couple questions now that I’ve hit a bit of a road block in learning.

  1. Is it possible to set up lemmy for local host on a local network only? I’m not worried about federated data from other instances. At this point I just want to experiment and break things before I commit to buying a Top Level Domain name.

  2. How exactly does a TLD work? I’ve tried searching up how to redirect traffic from a TLD to my raspberry pi. Since I don’t know much about hosting or networking, I don’t know what to search up to find the answer I’m looking for.

  3. How do I protect myself while self hosting? I know the Lemmy documentation suggests using Let’s Encrypt, is that all I need to do in order to protect any private data being used?

My goal in the future is to have a local, text-only instance that may connect with a small number of whitelisted instances.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I think the package “ddclient” is the most common DynDNS client. Should be available on almost any Linux distribution and handle most providers. Take one of the ones you found. Or afraid.org , desec.io , duckdns.org

    I’m not really up to date any more, so I’m not 100% sure. I’m paying like 6€ a year for a regular domain I properly own.