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marsara9 ,
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Their setup sounds similar to mine. But no, only a single service is exposed to the internet: wireguard.

The idea is that you can have any number of servers running on your lan, etc… but in order to access them remotely you first need to VPN into your home network. This way the only thing you need to worry about security wise is wireguard. If there’s a security hole / vulnerability in one of the services you’re running on your network or in nginx, etc… attackers would still need to get past wireguard first before they could access your network.

But here is exactly what I’ve done:

  1. Bought a domain so that I don’t have to remember my IP address.
  2. Setup DDNS so that the A record for my domain always points to my home ip.
  3. Run a wireguard server on my lan.
  4. Port forwarded the wireguard port to the wireguard server.
  5. Created client configs for all remote devices that should have access to my lan.

Now I can just turn on my phone’s VPN whenever I need to access any one of the services that would normally only be accessible from home.

P.s. there’s additional steps I did to ensure that the masquerade of the VPN was disabled, that all VPN clients use my pihole, and that I can still get decent internet speeds while on the VPN. But that’s slightly beyond the original ask here.

marsara9 ,
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Yes it would. In my case though I know all of the users that should have remote access snd I’m more concerned about unauthorized access than ease of use.

If I wanted to host a website for the general public to use though, I’d buy a VPS and host it there. Then use SSH with private key authentication for remote management. This way, again, if someone hacks that server they can’t get access to my home lan.

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A couple of options in my opinion, as I just did this myself:

You can use the CLI tool to “upload” them. You can even do this from the server itself. So upload times would be as fast as your network card can process or however fast your server is, whichever is slower. It does require that you create an API key for the user in question though.

Otherwise you can create an external library and link that to your account. Now Immich will still index this library but it won’t move or manage the actual files. I’m not sure though if it looks at those files for duplicates (i.e. if you try and upload the same photo from your phone to the server). This external library will also prevent deleting photos as well, FYI.

There might be other options that I’m not aware of, as I’ve only been using Immich for about a month now.

Edit: link to the CLI documentation: immich.app/docs/features/command-line-interface/

marsara9 ,
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Thanks for the shout-out.

But FYI I’ve run into some bugs that’s preventing new content from being indexed. So you won’t see anything new (from about a week ago) until I can find a new method to fetch new posts.

marsara9 ,
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Yep that’s the new idea. The sad part is that with this method there’s no way to get historical data. Only new posts. So if a server goes down, gets DDOSd etc… I’ll lose posts forever.

Also building an ActivityPub implementation from scratch isn’t trivial either. So that’ll take some time.

I’ve got a few other ideas I’m playing with as well. Like just assuming that internal post IDs are all sequential and literally fetching them one by one. Or maybe some combination of both?

marsara9 ,
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I was using it’s APIs. But new restrictions have effectively been put in place that prevent me from using them for what I need. Similar API calls were being made that were causing DDOS attacks on lemmy.world.

As for running a lemmy instance itself. That’s a thought but I need the data in a different format to do efficient searches. It’s a tricky problem.

Just had my first interaction with Meta Services last night. Thought I'd share what I learned.

I was up late last night and we know how that goes - rabbit holes. This time I was trying to find some ways to make my phone feel a little snappier and possibly eliminate the issue I was having where my recent apps button stops working until I restart the phone. On Android 13 I found that if I changed to gesture based navigation...

marsara9 ,
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I’m guessing Samsung. Google seems to show a handful of posts online about Samsung users asking about it. Or at least asking what is it, and how to uninstall it.

Pixel doesn’t seems to have it pre-installed anyway.

I can’t say anything about other manufacturers though.

marsara9 ,
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I just got a PR merged today that might help with this. I’ll start experimenting with it more over the next week or so.

Basic theory is that I can detect at least lemmy posts in the comment bodies and then rewrite those to your local instance. Primarily question is going to be performance, as remote network calls will be necessary.

marsara9 ,
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Ya if it’s not federated already, I’m thinking the link will just remain as-is? Then comes the question of what happens after federation is complete? Ideally I’m thinking to do these rewrites as the comment containing the link gets federated so it only happens once, but that prevents updates… If I do it during someone looking at the post, then that becomes a lot of network traffic…

Still a lot to plan out initially and then propose to the devs for feedback… So it’ll be awhile still.

marsara9 ,
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Not sure if I entirely understand what you’re asking but here’s my setup that sounds similar-ish that might help.

I’ve got essentially 3 machines

  1. Download machine - contains Sonarr/Radar/Nzbget, etc… This machine isn’t very powerful but it has A LOT of RAM.
  2. A Nas - this is where everything gets downloaded to. Primarily this machine just has a lot of HDD space.
  3. Jellyfin box – Decent RAM and a beefy CPU for transcoding.

The download machine has a network share to download directly to the NAS in a special /downloads/ folder. Once a download completes Sonarr, etc… move it to it’s correct media folder.

Finally the Jellyfin machine is monitoring the media folders for changes.

I assume you could set up something similar with Plex instead of jellyfin and then store the fully downloaded files on a separate machine with a network drive, so Plex can see it. Essentially the NAS for you would be two machines one (the seedbox) for the partial downloads and a local NAS for the fully downloaded files?

Anyway, not sure if that’s what you’re looking for.

Question about Lenny? If instance leaves

If an instance were to leave the fediverse do we loose all its data? Say for example iPad Lenny.ml domain was seized or was forced to shutdown so we loose all communities from that host? Do we not see any posts? Can we still post to it? Seems like a big flaw if we have multiple large instances that can shutdown a significant...

marsara9 ,
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If an instance goes down (permanently), federation of all of the communities hosted by that instance essentially stop. The content that has already been posted remains but anything new added to those communities only remain on your home instance. The only way for federation to resume is for that instance to come back online with the same domain it started with.

marsara9 ,
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Think of Lemmy as email. Each post or comment is just an email sent to a distribution group (a community). If your email server goes down, all of those users and distribution groups are gone. Now I’ll still have the emails I sent to you in my email box but you won’t be able to see them as your email server is offline. Sure you could create a new account on a new server but you’d have to tell everyone about your new address (federate) but there’s nothing to associate your old user with your new one and there’s no way to backfill data. I could reply-all or forward (comment) on to your new address but there’s still no way to associate those old posts with your new account.

marsara9 ,
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www.search-lemmy.com ?

I’m open to feedback though if the search results seem out of order etc…

marsara9 ,
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Same. Honestly I need to create a community just for this tool IMO. But I don’t have the time to moderate it.

marsara9 ,
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With ActivityPub all of the primary ids contain the domain of the hosting server. So if you lose your domain none of the other instances know that you’re the authority on those communities, posts, comments or users. So essentially federation breaks with all of the old data.

marsara9 ,
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I’m also running Ubuntu as my main machine at home. (I have a Mac and do Android development for my day job).

But at home, I do a lot of website and backend dev.

  1. Code in VSCode
  2. Build using docker buildx
  3. Test using a local container on my machine
  4. Upload the tested code to a feature brach on git (self hosted server)
  5. Download that same feature branch on a RaspberryPi for QA testing.
  6. Merge that same code to develop 6a. That kicks off a CI build that deploys a set of docker images to DockerHub.
  7. Merge that to main/master.
  8. That kicks off another CI build.
  9. SSH into my prod machine and run docker compose up -d
marsara9 ,
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Unless you have an account there’s no easy way to get access to the content on the page. Once you have an account there’s technically nothing stopping you from just saving the HTML file to your computer.

Something else you can try though, assuming you don’t have an account, is to just turn off JavaScript. If the site lets you partially load the content and then asks you to create an account to read more, they usually just block the content by having JavaScript add an opaque overlay. With JavaScript disabled, obviously it’s not there to add the overlay and you’re able to keep reading.

marsara9 ,
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Another thing that can be happening is that the router or firewall is redirecting all port 53 traffic to their internal DNS servers. (I do the same thing at home to prevent certain devices from ignoring my router’s DNS settings cough Android cough)

One way you can check for this is to run “nslookup some.domain” from a terminal and see where the response comes from.

marsara9 ,
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That looks like 8.8.8.8 actually responded. The ::1 is ipv6’s localhost which seems odd. As for the wong ipv4 I’m not sure.

I normally see something like requested 8.8.8.8 but 1.2.3.4 responded if the router was forcing traffic to their DNS servers.

You can also specify the DNS server to use when using nslookup like: nslookup www.google.com 1.1.1.1. And you can see if you get and different answers from there. But what you posted doesn’t seem out of the ordinary other than the ::1.

Edit just for shits and giggles also try nslookup xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx… is the wrong up from the other side of the world and see what domain it returns.

marsara9 ,
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Lookup Overseerr. overseerr.dev

Is there a way to search through posts across all instances/communities?

Hi, I’m relatively new here. Like probably a lot of people, I appended the word “reddit” to most of my searches to get discussions around my interests/news or to find “curated” things. I noticed that it does not work as great with “Lemmy” for example, as the user base is more spread out and smaller in general....

marsara9 ,
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Check out my post history.

But www.search-lemmy.com. It has a few bugs but it should work for you. Especially if you set your home instance to something large like Lemmy.world.

Edit: if you want to help contribute: www.github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

marsara9 ,
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Not sure if this helps but : www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?que…

marsara9 ,
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Make sure you select your home instance from the drop-down.

I’ve got an outstanding bug where first time users are defaulting to an obscure / small instance that doesn’t have much content.

github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/issues/45

marsara9 ,
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Thanks. It shouldn’t be long before I start considering the APIs stable enough that I can maybe reach out to the 3rd party app devs and then maybe who knows…

A new way to search for communities (www.search-lemmy.com)

I keep see people complaining about not being able to find active communities that match their interests. So I’ve added a new feature to www.search-lemmy.com that allows you to search posts for a particular topic and then it tells you which communities have the most posts matching your search query....

marsara9 OP ,
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Still working for me. You might need to clear your browser cache as I did make some UI changes as part of the update.

marsara9 OP ,
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Ya I index both post titles and the post body. I also weigh the body content slightly higher as well. So posts that just link an article will usually show lower than posts that actually have content.

At some point though this will change. As eventually I’ll start adding comment data to the index as well. But I’m waiting on a bug in Lemmy itself to be fixed before I begin working on that.

marsara9 OP ,
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It’s on my to-do list. Sadly though, in order for something to show in the drop-down for home instances that means I must have previously crawled that site. Because my #1 requirement is that if you click a link it must open in your home instance. Good news is, is that Kbin and Lemmy work nearly identical to each other, so Kbin will be the first non-lemmy type of instances that you can search.

marsara9 OP ,
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Lol. I guess I better have this working in 4 weeks. /jk

marsara9 OP ,
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I’ve already started to abstract away Lemmy from the search engine itself. So the first steps are in place. Once I get the kinks of the 0.4.x release knocked out then I plan on reading up on Kbin’s API and I’ll start working on the crawler. I can’t promise anything but that should give you a rough timeline.

If you have any programming skills I could always use a hand.

marsara9 OP ,
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Bummer. That’ll slow down Kbin’s inclusion into this. Well once it is available I’m sure I’ll start digging into it. But thanks for the info.

marsara9 OP ,
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Just pushed a new update, that should fix an issue with the home-instance selector. Since you’re on lemmy.world I’d suggest selecting that instance from the drop-down and trying your search again…

marsara9 OP ,
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Yep. The idea is that the instance you select is the instance that all links will open up in. This way once you find a post you’re looking for you don’t have to find it on your home instance and can immediately start replying, save it for later, subscribe to the community, etc…

Edit: I do plan on “fixing” this eventually, but I’m waiting on a bugfix on lemmy itself. You can see more here: github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/issues/20

marsara9 OP ,
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This doesn’t change the behavior of the built-in search within Lemmy. But rather this is suppose to be a close approximation of using Google with adding reddit to the end of your query.

The problem with the fediverse is that there are so many different instances you can’t really include them all in a search query and even if you could the links that Google would provide wouldn’t necessarily go to YOUR instance. This aims to fix that.

marsara9 OP ,
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Currently you can just search for posts. I don’t track anything like the number of members in a community etc… just the content of the post and how more or less accurate they are to your current query. I’m continuously trying to improve the page rankings though.

I guess in theory you can perform the same search multiple times with different community:!some_community@some_instance filters to see which returns the most results, but ya, that wouldn’t be the most convenient. At the moment this tool though is about finding posts, but who knows what features I may add in the future.

marsara9 OP ,
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I’ve been seeing a few people ask for something like this recently, so I might try and see how hard it would be to build something to help find active communities.

marsara9 OP ,
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some query community:[email protected] would search your community. Now, if this community is less than 24hrs old, it may not have been indexed yet, so you may just need to wait a day or so.

I just tested with www.search-lemmy.com/results?query=test+community… I was able to at least find 2 posts.

marsara9 OP ,
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depends on what they search for, for example this finds several posts on your community:

www.search-lemmy.com/results?query=lightweight+ba…

marsara9 OP ,
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Look under search tips for the filters at least.

marsara9 OP ,
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Thanks. Adding an issue for that. I should be able to set the default instance to the ‘seed-instance’ that’s configured for the crawler.

marsara9 OP ,
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github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/issues/45. If you want to track it.

marsara9 OP ,
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Just added a new feature that lets you search but it returns the number of matches per community. So you should be able to use that to find the most active communities based on your search result.

marsara9 OP ,
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www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?que…

It’s under the “Find Communities” button at the top of the screen. If you don’t see that button, try clearing your browser cache.

marsara9 OP ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6171a284-38ff-4aa8-8da9-ac711c60ea15.png

Here’s the landing page if you just go to www.search-lemmy.com. I’m assuming that drop-down that you’re referring to is your home instance selector. Since you’re on lemmy.world I suggest you set that to well, lemmy.world. Then you can do your search and all of the results will take you directly to that post on lemmy.world (or whatever you set as your home instance).

Now you can also see that Find Communities button in the top right, you can click on it and it’ll take you to a similar page but instead of returning posts for search results, it will return a list of communities, based on how many matches it found. (as if you did a search on the normal page but instead just counted the number of results per community).

marsara9 OP , (edited )
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Eventually it will. But there’s a bug preventing global search working in lemmy itself. You can see more of the details here (github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/issues/20 )

One of my primary goals with this is that users MUST be able to open a given link in their home instance so that they can then interact / reply / subscribe, etc… without having to figure out how to find said post themselves. So with that requirement, users MUST select a home instance but because of the before-mentioned bug I can’t show posts that your instance isn’t aware of.

marsara9 OP ,
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There is a public API now. While I won’t support sorting, you can process and do what you will with the results as-is. Currently I only support Posts and Communities for now.

When you search for posts you’re just matching against the title or body. For communities it’s searching the posts within that community.

There’s also more filters now with: instance/community/author/since/until and a safe-search option.

So I’m not sure how close this comes to your idea but I thought I’d share.

marsara9 OP ,
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It searches the title and body. It also automatically searches for similar words like. Like ‘bike’, ‘biking’, ‘bikes’ (aka stemming). Granted though, I’m still improving the page ranking as time goes on.

marsara9 OP ,
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Correct. As I can only provide links to posts that are on your selected home instance. Eventually I’ll change this but you’ll get a 404 page for links that aren’t on your home instance, but see my P.S. below.

P.s. there have been changes to the Lemmy API that have prevented me from getting updates for about a month now. So most of the results you’re seeing are from old posts only. Until I can rebuild the crawler or find a new API there won’t be any new content.

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