My Abuelo says:

  • he will not rewire things with the router

  • he wants me to find a way to create a Lemmy instance without Ethernet, just the regular Wi Fi connection without a router or anything.

This rules out what I was going to use, Yunohost. While I have the USB, I don’t have the router (it’s full), switch, or Ethernet Cable and Abuelo doesn’t want to buy one nor does he want me to buy one.

He thinks it’d be less time consuming if I found a way to self-host without that stuff, just through Wi-Fi, and I don’t know how to program.

  • towerful@programming.dev
    9·
    1 day ago

    Uh, don’t?
    You want a Lemmy instance - that I presume you would want to be somewhat reliable - without doing anything? WiFi prioritises convenience over speed and reliability. So, things will randomly fail.

    I guess pay for a Lemmy instance provider. Probably the easiest. But this is self hosting, and it sounds like you want a place to start and have chosen “hosting a Lemmy instance” as your learning ground.

    Something like cloudflare tunnel will let you punch through a firewall without having to mess with network stuff.
    A docker compose stack makes things as easy as they can be in such scenarios.
    These are terms you can google “Lemmy docker compose cloudflare tunnel”

    Here is 1 result: https://lemmy.world/post/299429

    Here is a GitHub for Lemmy in docker compose https://github.com/Drakeyves/lemmy-docker-setup

    This looks like it covers cloud flare in a compose stack: https://joelparkinson.me/self-hosting-with-cloudflare-tunnels-docker-compose/

    Read through, learn docker compose, understand cloudflare & cloudflare tunnels