I’ll be using whitelists to manage federation in order to keep things small. Also I am only interested in allowing people in my local community to join since that’s the goal I am working towards.

I am also interested in seeing how it does hold up in the future but it’s not a permanent solution. It’s why I went through the process of learning RSync so I can hopefully have a simpler data migration process and setup whenever that time comes.

I wanted to share the process for everyone since a lot of what’s in the guide could be useful for anyone with more appropriate server solutions, especially regarding Cloudflare’s services.

The Pi itself was convenient for learning since wiping everything to start over is simple and quick.