Sorry, but I’m not going to listen to anybody who actively and purposely registers a .zip TLD.

Oops didn’t realize what community I was in, my b!

If OP is looking for FOSS I suggest Element for Matrix. You can screenshare on there as well.

Just share your screen on discord

Just ignore them? I don’t see your point here at all. If you don’t want to eat Taco bell, don’t eat it???

Tbh, I think this whole thing is being blown out of proportion. Part of FOSS and the internet in general is the ability to have choice over what you use and spend your time with. Just because Sync is out, doesn’t mean you can’t continue to use your FOSS apps. It just means that we now have an option for people who want to pay for a very polished experience.

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

Well, time to start teaching myself how to create a docker container. Forking will be no issue, but creating the container will be completely new grounds for me. Thanks for the new project idea!

Yeah, but you’d lose out on being able to have a profile banner/photo.

Yeah pretty much.

It only pulls from communities you have subscribed to. Images aren’t duplicated per server, just text; so even if you find something nasty it’s not hosted by you and you can always delete comments from the database/block users from appearing in your instance.

Hello from a third self hosted instance comrads!

Thought I’d throw my opinion into the ring here, since literally every comment is shitting on this.

Arc is a design project, that also happens to be a web browser. If you’re just calling this “another chromium fork”, I think you’re completely missing the point of who this product is for. First of all, it’s not for you.

Secondly, the design changes that arc is working on perfecting are pretty groundbreaking. The ability to customize the css and functionality of any web page without code and it saves your profiles for future use with a marketplace is super interesting to me. So much UI on modern websites is entirely unnecessary. As a designer, this is a dream.

Also, nobody is mentioning that their working on a Windows version THAT NATIVELY RUNS SWIFT ON WINDOWS. This is a big deal for future cross compatibility in general, why are so many people not looking at this?

Anyway that’s my rant. Trying to voice my opinions even if they’re the odd ones out to prevent a Lemmy based echo chamber. Feel free to disagree.

Check out Cloudflare, with a D. It’s free and does exactly what you want.

In the mastodon search bar, enter the URL of the post/comment you want to reply to. It will show up in mastodon as a post once searched.

Note: if you’re replying to a comment or thread, you must include the community you’re posting in and the username you’re replying to into your reply or else Lemmy will not nest the threads correctly.

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Lemmy for Yunohost is still running Lemmy version 0.16.7, which does not support phone applications (Connect, wefwef, etc). It also doesn’t support photo uploads of any kind. Until these two issues are resolved I cannot recommend it.

I referenced Google domains because that’s what a lot of people are currently using. I thought about not mentioning it but it doesn’t really matter which registrar you’re using at the end of the day.

I chose Debian 11 for stability and compatibility with other user friendly hosting options, such as Yuno Host. As far as I’m aware, Yuno does not currently support 12 yet. (I don’t recommend installing Lemmy through YH as it’s on an ancient version and doesn’t support photo uploads nor phone apps)

You do not need to use a static IP with cloudflare as long as you use ‘localhost’ instead of 192.xxx.x.xx because cloudflared (the cloudflare tunnel software) runs on the server locally, and can detect changes in IP.

I’ll probably add screenshots if I get a second request for them. Screenshots require performing the actions proper and I didn’t have a test environment ready when I wrote this. Might make a video and add screenshots from that, we’ll see.

I found your suggestions incredibly helpful! Thank you for taking the time to share them with me!

As far as my understanding goes, the traffic between your server and cloudflare is unencrypted. If that bothers you, definitely do not use this solution.

It is possible to encrypt your traffic server side as well, I simply do not know how to accomplish this.

Yes. Easy deploy deploys a Lemmy server just like all the other methods. Easy deploy is just easier.

I will consider, thank you!

Let me know if you run into any problems! My goal is for this to be the go-to guide for beginners, so any mistakes at the beginning I’d love to buff out! Cheers.