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Hey! Seems my instance can receive posts from yours; both !godot@programming.dev and !programming@programming.dev seem to show the latest posts (newest one is from 19 hours ago). Can this federate back?

edit: I made a whole comment on the issue page without realizing that 19 hours ago was also when you fixed federation... congrats on getting things to work! And maybe my coffee shouldn't be as strong...

My instance is also having issues with federation. I actually found this from an issue on GitHub about it. I had to search up this post in order to see it. Hopefully my comment federates back!

I remember managing to get this issue solved on my computer. Looks like a QT issue. I may not remember exactly how I fixed it, but try the solutions in this thread and see if it works: https://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34104

In particular run export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 and then run LMMS from the same terminal.

Also in response to other comments, LMMS is actively being worked on (though updates have been slow) -- the last commit on the master branch was from 3 days ago, so that suggests that the project isn't abandoned but development's just rolling slowly.

The best ace representation! (...though I admit I haven't seen any ace dragons.)

I know, yeah! Talking a bit with you folks here really motivated me to actually start posting some content here, and honestly, on Lemmy in general! Apologies if this was a silly question because looking on it in retrospect yeah it's a bit weird to start making another community when there's so little content in Lemmy that there doesn't need to be that kind of distinction (and that kind of fragmentation might actually end up harming more than helping).

But about my first point, who knows though... you might see some pictures of dergs turn up somewhere here. Maybe...!

I do have to admit I'm part of the problem...! I think that this probably is the reason why meme communities on Lemmy are so big right now -- memes are designed to be reposted, so we're seeing a lot of that content opposed to original content (which isn't a bad thing, but it tends to drown out other content on All pages). Maybe I can get around to making more art for once and I can start to populate Lemmy with more content :)

But for right now, I agree that things are quite fine as they are. I don't really feel a need to create a separate community as I would on say, another larger platform, because right now this space (and others on the Fediverse) feels like a community where people's voices are actually heard. It's really refreshing, honestly. But yeah, it's nice to see what people think on this! Thanks for your input!

That's true, yeah. I do really like how the Fediverse is growing (and quickly too!) so we might see that start to happen later on (I sometimes already see a bit of niche communities on Lemmy being created). But at the same time, I do have to agree that although there's less posts, there's a genuineness to each post that really makes me appreciate them more.

Yeah, Podman is definitely one of those things I would say to do the latter with. It's functionality is the same as Docker though (commands work almost 1:1, and even docker-compose works with Podman), it has better integration with other system components (like automatically creating systemd services to start containers when a computer is restarted), and it gets you away from Docker as a company while still being able to access their containers on Docker Hub.
In the end though, I'd recommend sticking to what you're familiar with. It's always better to administer commands to your server that you know will work rather than learning as you go and hoping something doesn't break.

I may not be able to answer some of the more security-oriented questions, but one of the things I recommend is using a proxy to "hide" your home IP address. IP addresses can contain a lot of information including location data, so it's a good idea to make things harder for attackers to figure out where you live. I'm pretty sure you can do this with a basic VPS setup, but I know for sure you can do this with Cloudflare (as I have it enabled on my server).

As for getting reverse proxies set up from your Docker containers to the outside world using Apache, I can help. I use (rootless) Podman on my Raspberry Pi, meaning when I expose ports from my containers I have to choose port numbers greater than 8000. Once I have a port (let's say 8080), and a subdomain (I'll use subdomain.example.com), I just need to create a file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ which I'll call site.example.com.conf. The content usually looks something like this:

  ProxyPreserveHost On
  ProxyRequests Off
  ServerName subdomain.example.com
  ServerAlias subdomain.example.com
  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/

Then you just need to enter the commands sudo a2ensite subdomain.example.com and sudo systemctl reload apache2 and you should be able to access your container as a subdomain. You should just need to forward port 80 (and 443 if you want to set up Let's Encrypt and HTTPS) on your router.

Hope this helps!