Yes it would. In my case though I know all of the users that should have remote access snd I’m more concerned about unauthorized access than ease of use.

If I wanted to host a website for the general public to use though, I’d buy a VPS and host it there. Then use SSH with private key authentication for remote management. This way, again, if someone hacks that server they can’t get access to my home lan.

Their setup sounds similar to mine. But no, only a single service is exposed to the internet: wireguard.

The idea is that you can have any number of servers running on your lan, etc… but in order to access them remotely you first need to VPN into your home network. This way the only thing you need to worry about security wise is wireguard. If there’s a security hole / vulnerability in one of the services you’re running on your network or in nginx, etc… attackers would still need to get past wireguard first before they could access your network.

But here is exactly what I’ve done:

1. Bought a domain so that I don’t have to remember my IP address.
2. Setup DDNS so that the A record for my domain always points to my home ip.
3. Run a wireguard server on my lan.
4. Port forwarded the wireguard port to the wireguard server.
5. Created client configs for all remote devices that should have access to my lan.

Now I can just turn on my phone’s VPN whenever I need to access any one of the services that would normally only be accessible from home.

P.s. there’s additional steps I did to ensure that the masquerade of the VPN was disabled, that all VPN clients use my pihole, and that I can still get decent internet speeds while on the VPN. But that’s slightly beyond the original ask here.

A couple of options in my opinion, as I just did this myself:

You can use the CLI tool to “upload” them. You can even do this from the server itself. So upload times would be as fast as your network card can process or however fast your server is, whichever is slower. It does require that you create an API key for the user in question though.

Otherwise you can create an external library and link that to your account. Now Immich will still index this library but it won’t move or manage the actual files. I’m not sure though if it looks at those files for duplicates (i.e. if you try and upload the same photo from your phone to the server). This external library will also prevent deleting photos as well, FYI.

There might be other options that I’m not aware of, as I’ve only been using Immich for about a month now.

Edit: link to the CLI documentation: https://immich.app/docs/features/command-line-interface/

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Correct. As I can only provide links to posts that are on your selected home instance. Eventually I’ll change this but you’ll get a 404 page for links that aren’t on your home instance, but see my P.S. below.

P.s. there have been changes to the Lemmy API that have prevented me from getting updates for about a month now. So most of the results you’re seeing are from old posts only. Until I can rebuild the crawler or find a new API there won’t be any new content.

I’ve been trying to read up on the terms for in-app donations to developers for iOS but everything seems to be rather old. Anyway, just curious if a donation link runs a fowl of the terms of service or if you have to use in-app purchases and have Apple take their cut?

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/what-is-fallow-ground.htm#:~:text=Fallow ground%2C or fallow soil,five years%2C depending on crop.

i.e. appears to be unused farmland?

I know this isn’t inside the Memmy app yet, but does https://www.search-lemmy.com provide something more to what you’d expect?

There is an open issue to see about adding this as an alternative (with a toggle) to the app.

https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy/issues/758

With ActivityPub all of the primary ids contain the domain of the hosting server. So if you lose your domain none of the other instances know that you’re the authority on those communities, posts, comments or users. So essentially federation breaks with all of the old data.

I’m also running Ubuntu as my main machine at home. (I have a Mac and do Android development for my day job).

But at home, I do a lot of website and backend dev.

1. Code in VSCode
2. Build using docker buildx
3. Test using a local container on my machine
4. Upload the tested code to a feature brach on git (self hosted server)
5. Download that same feature branch on a RaspberryPi for QA testing.
6. Merge that same code to develop 6a. That kicks off a CI build that deploys a set of docker images to DockerHub.
7. Merge that to main/master.
8. That kicks off another CI build.
9. SSH into my prod machine and run docker compose up -d

Lookup Overseerr. https://overseerr.dev/

Totally agree.

Just wanted to point out that app development has different costs, sometimes none, associated with it vs hosting something like a Lemmy instance.

But p.s. logos and artwork can be bundled with the app itself. I assume, but I could be wrong, that many mobile devs have at least a handful of test devices available. Although the simulators have come a long way. But agreed test devices, especially newer ones can be expensive.

First I can’t speak for the Memmy devs but here’s my personal experience:

In theory something like a mobile app doesn’t really have any reoccurring costs, at least not with Lemmy, etc… Not natively, anyway. Sure there’s the $100 cost for an iOS dev account but that’s nothing in the end. Should Lemmy start to introduce API access fees, again that could change, but that’s a long way off if ever.

The question really comes down to, long term, how much time are the devs spending on development and if they want to make money with this or not.

As some of us find this sort of development, well “fun”, and just do this as a hobby rather than as an income stream. And any small costs we’ll just eat because quite frankly we were going to build these apps anyway, if not just for ourselves why not share them with the rest of the community?

Long story short, Memmy (and the other mobile apps) may not need to charge anything as it’s not costing the devs anything more than time. Now Lemmy itself, is a completely different story.

Problem is finding the difference between repost bots and bots that are helpful like automod and link redirectors.

Maybe. 2nd idea I’ve got is that if no one is replying after say 24hrs and something like 75-80% of your posts are as such and you have at least 100 such posts, you get added to the list?

Main concern I see about something like this is false positives and how someone real could end up getting blocked.

I definitely want to think on this some more but it might have some legs.

…I wonder if there’s a programmatic way to detect these bots? Some sort of analysis on their posting behavior?

If they’re playing nice they’ll have the bot flag checked in their profile, and then maybe build a list of any bot that creates posts? As most of the “good” bots just reply to comments? Anyway just thinking out loud. But I’m thinking I could easily add a public API to my search engine that just returns a list of “posting bots”…

Cloudflare? Namecheap?

Not sure exactly what features you’re after but the vast majority of them support what you mentioned above.

The target folder may be quite large. You can look at the dependencies for my project but my end binary is only a few MB.

I don’t see anything wrong initially. Can you also test with something like postman? It’ll allow you to control the headers etc… that you send.

You can also compare to what I have here and see if that helps: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/blob/b6c88355aba49abca52862473650526821ee165a/server/src/api/lemmy/fetcher.rs#L123

https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

https://www.search-lemmy.com

It’s still in EARLY development so expect bugs.