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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • So it sounds to me like you have 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 support IPv6 fully 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.



  • 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:

    • Traefik is great if you’ve got a purely docker setup. It’s extremely powerful and the dashboard is quite nice, but it’s quite complex and it’s got a lot of moving parts. Docker integration works great but the whole label configuration thing is clunky, and the documentation can be confusing.
    • Caddy ingests a dead simple config and just works. Can easily handle cert renewal behind the scenes without you even having to think about it, drop the dynamic DNS one in and you basically have it all covered. There’s even one that gives it Traefik-like capabilities, although I can’t speak for how well it works in practice.
    • NPM works great if you’re more of a GUI person, very straightforward and impossible to screw up but a bit more annoying to go off the beaten path imo

    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.





  • Brainstorming a bit, I think wiring up InfluxDB, Grafana plus some convenient way of inputting all those data sources sounds ideal. As a time series database, keeping track of how data evolves over time is InfluxDB’s whole thing, Grafana or similar would be for visualizing said data. I guess the complicated part would be getting your data sources to write to it in a convenient way, not sure if there’s a generic enough project out there already.
    Looking around a bit, not too dissimilar to what this blog post has done.