Would it be possible for me to make comments to other instances etc?
yes its possible. can you do it? dunno, it can get complex.
that youre asking here means no, you cannot.
Can I host my own Lemmy instance on localhost?
Submitted 11 months ago by Octopus1348@thelemmy.club to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months ago
stown@sedd.it 11 months ago
I don’t know enough about ActivityPub to say for sure but I believe that in order to federate properly (grab posts and comments from other servers as well as sending posts and comments to other servers) you need to have a publicly accessible domain with SSL. Hosting on localhost ( the computer you want to access from) is pointless if you don’t have a reverse proxy set up to actually let others see your server online.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 11 months ago
Depends on what you mean by “localhost”. Localhost is just the computer you’re currently logged in / sitting in front of… But I don’t know what kind of computer that is and how it is connected to the internet.
You’d need a webserver that is reachable from the internet to be able to have a Lemmy instance that can interact with other parts of the network. You either have a connection to the internet that allows hosting stuff… Or you can do port forwarding in your router (at home) or if that’s all not available use a tunnel or VPN.
eluvatar@programming.dev 11 months ago
Each instance is available on someone’s localhost.
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 11 months ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IP Internet Protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Watch out for all the hackers there!
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 11 months ago
No, ActivityPub is a push protocol. Other instances send data to your instance via HTTPS and only HTTPS. So you need at minimum a public domain and web server with TLS enabled.
Some people use Cloudflare tunnels to avoid opening ports or just get a cheap VPS to forward the traffic home without exposing the home IP.
dog@suppo.fi 11 months ago
You do realize all this is easily done with a reverse proxy + DuckDNS?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Wouldn’t you need a publically available IP? DuckDNS is only for dynamic IP’s that is public, yes?
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why not HTTP :c
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Data send via HTTP is not encrypted. That’s bad.