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?

  • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
    1•3 years ago

    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.

    • poVoqOP
      3•3 years ago

      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.