It was easy enough to do it with self hosted mastodon, cant seem to login to any of the Lemmy apps with my selfhosted website? Lemmy.rip
UPDATE: I had to renew through a setting in yunohost, not automatic, porkbun was showing it as valid and I I’m used to them grabbing it automatically or having me paste it in during setup.
Yes you can use lemmy apps to access a self hosted instance, but you will need a real certificate for that to work.
A quick check of
Lemmy.ripshow it has a self signed certificate, thats not going to allow you to access it easily and my even stop federation from working.You should be able to get a lets encrypt certificate very easily.
It’s 2025. Not having “real certificates” is something admins intentionally do. Since there is Let’s Encrypt available, all other solutions for non-paid certificates are obsolete.
With let’s encrypt and DNS APIs, theres no excuse not to have a real certificate!
More so if you want to have that service interacte with other systems not your own
Exactly. With directly using certbot handling all and everything fully automatically I ran my old setup with a free dyndns subdomain for quite some time without any issues.
Since Let’s encrypt nowadays is basically implemented in every reverse proxy: certificates are an absolute no-brainer.
If someone manages to buy and configure a domain to serve selfhosted content, this person will also be able to either set up certbot or use the built-in functionality of their reverse proxy.
forsure I thought it had one through porkbun but yunohost might be messing with that
yunohost has a dedicated page in the admin ui for you to configure your domains and certificates. default is a self-signed one unless you generate a proper one