Question with hosting a lemmy instance behind a VPN

Since ISPs in my country all use CGNAT i rely on tailscale for access outside I wanna try hosting my own lemmy instance and have a few questions

  • Are you still able to federate with other instances?
  • only people on the VPN will be able to join?
marsara9,
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You’ll be able to get an initial set of data from federation but you won’t get any data beyond that.

Federation works via “pushes”, but since your instance would be behind a VPN the other instances in the federation wouldn’t be able to see it to push content updates.

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