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Suggestion for "relay" Lemmy instance for personal use? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been in Lemmy for a month and I'm quite enjoy using the service.

However, after the mass migration on both Reddit and Twitter, I feel like the services are now significantly slower than they used to be. So I'm wondering whether I should have some kind of personal CDN/relay service for "caching" information especially medias or just create a new instace and federated to public Lemmy instance?

FYI, I have a private OpenVPN served on DO and 1L "server" that run Proxmox for existing services to my home. Should be okay to have a Nginx reverse proxy, right?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, I'm slowly starting to realize that. That a few misunderstood, I could see that. If you're new to things you've probably only heard in connection to cryptocurrencies. But everyone misunderstanding? It's really shocking. Especially since the context should have made it obvious.

As developer we have crypto libraries. Crypto systems. Crypto layers. Crypto functions.. And so on.

Crypto is cryptography. Cryptocurrencies are just a small thing, using cryptography. To have that "take over" the crypto word completely is as unnerving as waking up one day and mentioning to someone you washed your face this morning and they respond "What, like, the screen?" and then discover everyone only thinking of facebook, even with the context.

I'm sorry, I'm rambling. It's just so unbelievable to me to have this happen in a forum focusing on self hosting services. Where crypto should (hopefully) be daily bread and butter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It happens. Remember the original meaning of the word hacker, versus its public perception? You can hang on to the original meaning and have an extra hurdle in communication, or you can accept it and move on by being more specific.

At any rate, I think public/private keys are already being used by Lemmy for authentication on the way you propose.