Update: Make sure you set it to both English AND Undetermined. Both are important.
Wander
With Lemmy there's actually a use case for user-only instances, which host no communities. Moderating well is tough and it makes sense to prevent brigading.
Yes, I think it works if both are selected, but it's tricky to do on a desktop PC. I think it's easier on a phone.
Yes, you tunnel all your traffic through cloudflare. Google "Cloudflare tunnel".
Whatever people say about cloudflare, right now it's a necessity if you manage a public facing server and don't have the resources to avoid DDoS attacks.
Better delivery and avoids exposing your IP via emails, although it's best to setup a some sort of tunnel to avoid having that problem altogether.
Definitely install fail2ban and use certificates for ssh authentication. Also, use cloudflare and consider using an email delivery service like jetmail instead of sending mail directly from the instance.
You could then block any incoming traffic that doesn't come for port the ssh port or from cloud flare for port 443.
Can't find it from my instance. Can anyone?
Definitely. That's where it'll really hurt them.
It follows instructions and replicates them automatically. AKA auto-install.
I wish I could give you a 100 upvotes. This is very true and twitter has only made it worse.
Google the lemmy-ansible repository. You'll need to install Linux on your PC first.
They're digging their own graves.