Since ISPs in my country all use CGNAT i rely on tailscale for access outside I wanna try hosting my own lemmy instance and have a few questions
- Are you still able to federate with other instances?
- only people on the VPN will be able to join?
Since ISPs in my country all use CGNAT i rely on tailscale for access outside I wanna try hosting my own lemmy instance and have a few questions
4 Comments
marsara9@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
You'll be able to get an initial set of data from federation but you won't get any data beyond that.
Federation works via "pushes", but since your instance would be behind a VPN the other instances in the federation wouldn't be able to see it to push content updates.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me · 10 pts · 3y
Your best bet is probably Cloudflare tunnels, it's been suggested a few times in this community already.
Second best option is a cheap VPS, those can be obtained for $5/mo
pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev · 2 pts · 3y
Tailscale has funnels, you could check them to see if they can forward the traffic to your instance.
I don't know exactly how it'll work since the funnel has a specific URL provided by tailscale, so I don't know if a cname or something like that could work for a custom domain to your lemmy instance
Heastes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
You can use your own (sub)domains for Cloudflare tunnels if you use Cloudflare as your nameserver.