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?
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.