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You seem to have descibed your port forwards backwards It is the router forwarding the ports to the gateway pi (and potentially other devices), not gateway pi and other devices forwarding to the router. The forwards to servers are incoming from the internet.

(Theoretically you could have your pi physically between the router and the internet (modem) acting as a sort of pre-router, but this would be unusual. Perhaps you could describe your physical setup more clearly. What is physically/wirelessly connected to what, to the internet.)

Your freedom is in the (theoretical) ability run your own instance and communities on it if you disagree with or have been banned from other instances. And your instance can federate with whomever will allow it.

Communities also want freedom -- to be organized and run the way they want to be, and to be free from being hijacked or shit on uncontrollably by randos, bad actors, or even (defined by themselves) undesirables.

It's not perfect. But you sometimes have to consider a bigger picture than just your personal freedom, to make things a free as practically possible.

Is this related to the rhetorically classic Tua Mater defence?

NextCloud has end-to-end encrypted voice and video chat, and of course a whole bunch else, since people are mentioning self-hosting. The corresponding Android app "nextcloud talk".

There is a general perception now with many in the US and even more among the US's partners that the US government is now actively regressive, making life more difficult for most of its citizens and partners, and indeed the world. China, despite its shortcomings, is mostly seen as making progress at raising living standards, moving more towards being environmentally responsible, and as a stable and predictable partner.

Whatever the complicated on the ground realities, these are some of the ways that make China currently seem to look better too many. Since you ask.

I'm liking the simplicity of dockcheck

https://github.com/mag37/dockcheck

Tax wealth, not work

Use Caddy for reverse proxy. It's magic. Just put in config the subdomain/domain and localhost port to point to, it will fetch and configure and keep certificates up to date with zero effort. You'll forget certificates exist. It just works.

A certain sythe sweep near the end of Grim Fandango.

The dip in the river near the end of Bioshock Infinite.

Jumping into the thing near the end of Outer Wilds, and coming down where you come down going through what you go through.

Glad you found a happy cozy home. Appreciative that I can reply to you from heart of the old beast!

Relative to all the well known commercial social media platforms though aren't we all into something here hardly anyone else knows about, whether 10 users or a few thousand?

One easy way to test accessing your site externally is use a free web proxy to try to load it.

For example (not a personal recommendation, just a random search result) https://wproxy.net/

https://canadianbreadsettlement.ca/