I hate being forced to use this crap

Which provider are you on?

I currently use disroot mail. Maybe I’ll just donate and connect my domain and still keep using that provider… Though, having your own domain for emails would be cool. Can use all different addresses for signup on each websites. I wouldn’t have to worry about spams at all that way… (Disroot provides aliases, username+alias@disroot.org for receiving but the + sign causes error on some poorly made sites)

Sweet, seems like lemmy is pretty lightweight on resources overall. Thanks for the reply :)

Haha, that wasn’t really the purpose, I intend to federate and communicate

I’m also quite unfamiliar with lemmy architecture haha. Well unless the instance I’m trying to federate with defederates/bans my instance, I guess I’ll be ok but I don’t know… I’m currently searching for information :)

I see. I think I’ll try finding a cheap second hand laptop and run it as a server. (Technically even includes a UPS lol)

The VPS also seems nice, I’ll look into it. Thanks!

I’m not sure what parent commenter uses exactly but cloudflared / argo tunnel can be used for free though they don’t have some enterprise oriented functions. The daemon running on the server, cloudflared is also open source, available on Gihub.

So the only ports required to open for proper lemmy operation are HTTP/HTTPS ones (80, 443)? Argo tunnel didn’t seem to support a whole lot of protocols (I couldn’t find a way to enable telnet for a BBS for instance) and I was wondering if theres additional port needed for ActivityPub.

I have multiple purposes - while I do trust the folks running instances and my current lemmy.world instance they may close service at any time and I wanted to ensure that I won’t have to move instances, and I’m also considering to run my own E-Mail in my personal domain later so I thought it would be nice to have lemmy and etc (my online presence) connected to my domain. Also yes, I was thinking I might help reduce server costs for others and stuff but that doesn’t seem to be the case…

I’m not English native and I often see Google ads in my language. Many of them are of very low quality and some ads connect to phishing links, weird apps or cover contents. I don’t think Google strictly restrict them…