Epicyon makes some interesting design choices for running a small personal instance for friends and family (user target 1-20). And it is easy to get an instance running on a RasberryPi or so.
But I think many people still face the barrier of not having a domain name and not wanting to rent a VPS which they then have to maintain etc.
While this problem can’t be fully solved, maybe a dynDNS domain service specifically aimed at small fediverse instances, that offers free sub-domains on a fediverse related domain (example.fedi.party or so) might be a worthwhile offer?
I think you are not getting my point ;) Edit: ok I saw your edit. Edit: yes someone would need to host such a dyndns service and maybe make some patched for popular fediverse server software.
I am talking about having someone being able to set up their own fediverse instance on a RasberryPi with minimal effort and knowledge needed. Epicyon (on freedombone or libreserver) does that with some good default security settings, but the domain name issue and all the steps to set it up with dyndns and so on are a major hurdle.
I have done all what you are suggesting myself and yes it works fine. But I would not suggest to not as tech savy friends to do the same unless they are really interested in it.
The problem was centric on something like dyndns for the Fediverse. So I was centric for it.
By default you can select a free domain in FreeDNS and I added public domains in some ocasions so everynyan could use it.
Yes technically that works. But having a proper api or script in the fediverse server that just asks: “you can choose yourname.fedi.party” as a domain and it sets up everything including asking your router for a port forward via upnp.
Okay, now I got it.
Was difficult hahahahaha.