Virtualize or containerize everything.
ohshit604
Somebody watched the backrooms recently.
It’s clear that Redlibs maintainer is burnt out, as were the LibReddit folks who developed and maintained it initially before it was forked. Software like this is an endless cat and mouse chase, Reddit break something, the community works around it, rinse and repeat.
It’s why we don’t see Bibliogram around anymore, Instagram made their APi unbearable to work with.
In regard to the difficulty of keeping a Redlib instance alive, currently most of the discussion occurs in one issues post on GitHub, and people have suggested other docker images that currently work.
If you host a SearXNG instance you can replace Reddit links with Redlib links, just add this to your settings.yaml.
hostnames:
replace:
'(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'lib.your.domain'
'(.*\.)?redd\.it$': 'lib. your.domain'
Ubuntu is based off of Debian, just use Debian instead.
Got that forehead tattoo like DC Young Fly

If you really need to expose something to the internet set yourself up an SSO/OIDC provider and have it sit in front of the service and have a deny-first policy in place, whitelist the known few IP’s that need to connect regularly or alternatively geoblock.
Also suggest setting up some security headers, however headers can be confusing for beginners.