Headscale is best used with the CLI. If you host a UI it’s only for convenience, and you need to keep track of the Headscale version it supports. The Discord guild can help you debug things.

Can Tailscale be logged in from multiple credentials? If so try having a few of them instead of one for redundancy. Also maybe look into hosting a reliable and simple IDP like Kanidm for Tailscale.

Does Synapse have an option to create a one-time registration token with short expiry? I’d do that if my community is small enough.

Hi, the other comments have said it pretty well, but you can also check out my previous post for some of the other comparisons.

I went from Pihole > Adguard Home > Technitium, and stuck with the last one because it supports clustering (syncing data between nodes) and recursion (so no need for external Unbound). The interface is a bit complex and there is no dedicated documentation, but should be intuitive enough as you learn.

If you want something simpler, I think Adguard Home is a better choice than Pihole as it natively supports encrypted DNS protocol, and has a sleeker UI. But other than that Technitium is nice as you expand your homelab eventually.

Did you try OpenVFS ever outside of Opencloud? Is that project even published yet?

• Why do you want your own Lemmy instance? Can’t you just create a community on another instance?
• May not be the answer you want, consider exposing your laptop’s service(s) via Cloudflare Tunnels. That’s the best way if you don’t have an exposable public IP.
• Lemmy and other services will make outbound requests and leak your residential IP. If this is a problem for you, you should proxy outbound traffic on the machine
• Have you considered Oracle but in another region? Or do they geo-restrict you?
• For questionable content, look onto moderation tooling for Lemmy. Keep watch on your media folder(s) regularly and delete offensive ones