Yo - absolutely!

WG easy posts the GUI on a separate port than the primary Wireguard port you’d need to open in the firewall. I think it’s 51821 - but this can easily be changed depending on if you’re using docker-compose files or a gui like portainer to manage this.

In my case - I am using Nginx Proxy Manager - and it even has it’s own basic password requirement “Access List” availability. With NPM I’m routing that gui over vpn (local dns) but you could put it behind a password with limite security via Access List, or the step beyond look into “middleware” like Keycloak.

I am glad to see more people selfhosting their own. Makes me feel less out. Had the same issues.

I have so far been able to access and post on everyone else’s instance from my own. I do struggle with searching but I’ve considered that to be due to the large amount of people. Example was when beehaw crashed the other day.

So far, it’s been simple enough.

I believe I’ve had to put them in there if I wanted them to be easily searchable. It did seem I could access another instance but that mine didn’t have any interest in collecting data until that was put in.

A very valid question I am also interested in knowing. I’m wondering how much management it will be for me - who created his own instance and am having to find all the other communities myself. Or if my instance is doing anything but providing me a unique instance address and name.

I’m a sense I promoted that idea because I believe that communication should be open and free. Frankly, I do agree with you that keeping the community to mildly tech savvy folks is quite nice indeed.

I welcome and look forward to reading everyone’s thoughts on the issue. I made some large posts because I wanted new folks to see they could come here - not that they will stick around ultimately.

It’ll be up to them.

I haven’t tried, but I imagine federating will be a hassle without a clear way for the other services to exchange responses.

Proxmox at home xD

I think it’s more people tired of the pollution that took place, and trying to preserve the clean and friendly one we have so far.

I do personally agree with saving old ones, but I’d highlight them as legacy and then make only the admin be able to edit/create content there, with links to the new one still as suggested before.

Don’t burn books, but let’s not study incorporate the worst things and make them normal here. I think is the feeling.

I support the archiver program myself xD

Worth the read. I do wish as we post these for a summary of what the link is if it were at all possible. The one we got here was very limited and could’ve been a bit more expressive but it was absolutely worth reading!

I agree, which is why I offered no solution as of yet… I suppose best we have right now is resounding opinion of ‘most liked’ in a thread. I suppose that would lean itself to revealing the idea which holds the highest consensus.

In some tech groups, it may become feasible for malicious actors to feign intelligence, and that’s partly what I’m hoping this slowly curtails. Use of LLM and the rest in our discourse.

While I’m immediately tempted to request to be made a mod, I’m going to wait a day or so and see how frequently other new members start posting.

This is my day one, so not ideal for me to make any assertions or claims. I do enjoy the spirit that we have though so far.

I’m going to be honest and say it’s probably a challenge, but with the combination of ChatGPT4, I bet you be just as successful as I was! I was able to get my instance to run behind Nginx Proxy Manager. It took several changes but is functional now.

I would be curious if there might be a way to give some sort of “attribute of credibility” that we could come up with.

and rightly so imo… why waste the time to make hyperlinks of every minor nuance… “increased the ban notes character limit” xD ha!

I was very glad to see the community speak their minds though.

I’m so tired of goodreads emailing me since 2012 xD I should’ve hit unsubscribe years ago…

I absolutely loved reading wholesome content like this. That’s a great idea! We should collectively work together to shape how we want our future year to be!

I wonder if we could petition Lemmy.ml to make the adjustment? I’m not positive how the mod roles function just yet.

It cost me nothing really to add the instance but I’ve yet to add a bunch of people talking and communicating - thus filling my drives… In the past I used the Matrix protocol and while it’s entirely different I think for a moderate community we should be able to last a good year on a TB if we has some reasonable limitations on size.

Right now I’m just using the web interface on mobile - selfhosted though so I got to change the theme to dark.