Is there a good way to self host a federated service at home without port forwarding? Is it possible to use cloudflare tunnels or tailscale funnel and still connect to the federation?
https://lemmyonline.com/ is an instance hosted at my house, without port-forwarding, using cloudflare.
Just make sure you have a valid domain, and valid TLS. TLS is required for federation.
I’m using lemmy with my cloudflare tunneled instance right now, no issues at all :)
Your username is amazing btw
Like others have said, definitely you can CloudFlare tunnel. I set mine up a few days ago and it’s great and pretty easy too!
Slightly unrelated: is having your own instance and then federarating, just like people do with Mastodon, also equally valuable with Lemmy?
I’m not sure what exactly you mean by valuable
It’s certainly easier on storage. Doesn’t Mastodon cache like, every image to your instance?
In the spirit of self-hosting I am self-hosting a tool that does what you are asking for. I run frp on a cloud provider. My homelab makes an outgoing connectionusing the frp client to the frp server(s), which use that connection to forward port 443 (and any other ports I specify in the client config) into my lab. You could even terminate SSL in the cloud running nginx/Traefik/etc there, though I have chosen not to.
