Of course, I can’t say anything about other forums.

So I can find the forum and subscribe to it if I want.

I can’t say anything about calling handles with !, but if I follow the handle on Mastodon, it works anyway.

As far as I can see, you can ask questions and follow categories if the admin sets this up. Here is an example: events@forum.fedimins.net

You can only post if you connect your Fediverse account to the forum.

OK, I don’t understand what excluding local addresses has to do with security. It’s not that unusual to route within the network.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust/blob/0.5.10/src/config.rs#L207

I’ve tried a few things now, hardcoded proxy headers:

  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $custom_real_ip;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $custom_forwarded_for;

setting the IP for the domain in the container:

    extra_hosts:
      - "rollenspiel.forum:142.132.206.141"

setting the DNS server in the container:

    dns:
      - 8.8.8.8

it doesn’t change the error message, I don’t know what Lemmy checks to determine that it’s a local IP, because all standard tools show me the public IP for rollenspiel.forum.

I can’t cope with it; you always have to be careful which version you’re using, because different games require different versions. Writing games yourself is very cumbersome. So far, no player has wanted to use fvtt when we’ve compared it with roll20.

I didn’t give it nearly as much thought before I started.

In terms of price, you can set a very low price for a single-user instance. Hetzner and Netcup, for example, offer very affordable VPS (these are providers I know of, but there are certainly others).

I don’t see open registration as a problem either. I’ve had it for years, and when I get waves of spam, which is very rare, I switch to moderated mode, otherwise it remains open.

I would host software according to your preferences. I should have kept Friendica running and turned off Mastodon, but that ship has sailed for me.

For a single-user instant, it might be interesting to connect to a relay; it is important that it is moderated. Fedimins offers such a service.

That sounds like Fedimins. We use Discourse with the AP plugin. https://fedimins.net/

For blogging, I can recommend Writefreely. Hubzilla and Friendica both have features similar to Facebook.

Sorry, I must not have been awake enough, I misread it. kbin is dead when I look at the repo, but piefed still looks very young as a project.

And pixelfed is your alternative? That’s not even close to the same usecase.

I use it for Fedimins and RPG-Foren. Works great.

The AP is not really good for chats, so I would rather use the Matrix protocol that Element, for example, offers as a client.

Mastodon, Writefreely, Flohmarkt, Mobilizon all self-hosted

Quite clearly NO It is a central office that now answers a large part of the DNS questions; apart from the fact that they so often have failures.

you only have to start a second docker cluster with a different public port

that’s an exaggeration, i haven’t had a moderation case like that on lemmy yet.

From the moment I read Cloudflare, I was out.

thanks for the help, that put me on the right track, apparently an old image was used.