Ah, so it seems like once you've setup an instance at a domain, you've kinda burned that domain unless you use like a subdomain. That's a bit annoying, but I guess it makes sense.
WTF is that? Why wouldn’t you store your signing key on something like a Yubikey that’s specifically designed for something like this? Admittedly you’d have to use a specific key type, but still.
Oh! I did set up a few relays, I didn’t realize they worked both ways! So posts I make on my instance go out to the relay and people subscribed to the relay will see my posts.
Ah, so similar to the issues with finding content on a single user Mastodon instance :(
I think the biggest leap forward for the Fediverse would be making content more discoverable. Just not sure how that would be done.
The other problem for a single user instance would be that anything you post is basically shouting into the void unless people follow you. At least with Lemmy you can post to other instances/communities.
Does it make sense to host your own Pixelfed instance (like I’m doing with Mastodon and Lemmy currently)? I occasionally do some photography and having a place to post my images to replace my current site would be nice.
My understanding is that a lot of VPS hosts have rules against hosting NSFW content, and they have to be strictly moderated (hopefully for obvious reasons…).