Is there a good way to self host a federated service at home without port forwarding? Is it possible to use cloudflare tunnels or tailscale funnel and still connect to the federation?
https://lemmyonline.com/ is an instance hosted at my house, without port-forwarding, using cloudflare.
Just make sure you have a valid domain, and valid TLS. TLS is required for federation.
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