I’m reading up on self-hosting Lemmy, and I was planning on creating my own private instance for individual use on some spare Azure ASP I use to host private FreshRSS (not rich to host a public service).
This basically shuts my idea down, because I wanted to simply host my account myself and browse all of Lemmy as I please.
So is everyone hosting individual instances dealing with them being public? is there a workaround to avoid having a public service that anyone can see?
I used a $2/mth vps and got an instance up in about 5 minutes with ansible. Took longer to pay for the instance and ssh into it than the Lemmy install
If I were worried about it gaining users then I’d just limit access to the UI or do some database maintenance