If I were to create a new instance of lemmy do I set up my own server in my house, or am I just creating an instance on one of the lemmy servers?
If I were to create a new instance of lemmy do I set up my own server in my house, or am I just creating an instance on one of the lemmy servers?
its the internet, they are. Putting it behind cloudflare and locking down the firewall to only allow their ips has filtered out pretty much everything. its free and pretty straight forward if you own your own domain.
check your nginx access logs, I’m sure they’re full of people poking it.
134.122.30.157 - - [22/Jul/2023:07:45:28 -0500] "\x00\x00\x00\xB2\x9A\xD6\x8E\xCF.\x22\x83\xA9\xBF2\xBA|ro\xAE_\x95\xEC\x80\xE4\xE9n\x82q\x9E\xC6\xA9\x8F\xF5" 400 157 "-" "-"and all kinds of other obvious incorrect stuff when a normal request looks like
2001:19f0:5c01:dd3:5400:2ff:feba:75b - - [27/Jul/2023:07:21:25 -0500] "GET /comment/165203 HTTP/2.0" 200 953 "-" "Lemmy/unknown version; +https://lemmy.xcoolgroup.com"GET/POST/WHATEVER /url …