cjerrington

Changing ports isn’t a terrible thing, also not the perfect “fix” either, as you can still recognize open ports and scan the service on them.

Some ports are reserved in networking, so should stay away from those.

Some ISPs don’t allow you open ports on 80/443 as those are web hosting ports and they provide a service to consumers to download content from the internet, not for their consumer to be a web hosting provider as well. That’s at the residential level, if you have a business plan that might change, but it might be hard to convince and ISP otherwise.

I run a PiHole and have Quad9 as the upstream resolver instead of the ISP. That was pretty simple to setup as well. You can also do DNS-over-HTTPs and other options as well for content filtering to block malware and items of DNS upstream.

Cloudflare DNS proxied dns to be exact too. They also allow DNS only which is not routed through Cloudflare and the services.

What is hard too, is if all the posts to get things started are the mods or creator, the same ghost town might occur. It’s hard to tell or know what will be interesting to get people talking so to speak. Some should also be put on the subscribers as well who also have an interest. It’s a double edge sword sometimes.

I was going to mention this as well. I went from Google, to Authy, to Raivo OTP and never looked back. Their sync system is great too.

They have a website too with more articles as well https://raivo-otp.com/

There could also be /m/Technology on every kbin, lemmy instance as well. Now if the mods from Reddit are moving over I could see that as more “official”.

That’s also what makes the fediverse options great, they each can be used together and separate giving users a wider use case of one instance over another. If they like the community in one but not another. Or if one community leaves the whole thing is not gone.

One note too on the “unofficial” list is the way each platform recognizes and is searchable for them is different on each platform. Be aware if you “can’t find it” using the way the community name is listed.