Interesting, I would start with a Wireshark capture of the dns traffic to get a better idea of what’s going on.

Hmm does Lemmy need search engine optimization? I have no idea how seo works these days :/

No, I like living in my nat cocoon so I don’t have to worry as much about all the devices on my network. Jk it’s turned on, but I don’t usually enable it on devices

You could get a free oracle cloud instance https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Free dns https://freedns.afraid.org/

Then use letsencrypt to get free SSL certificates

Then you’ll have a site that is secure and validates correctly with almost all web browsers.

You could run services in oracle cloud, or use ssh or OpenVPN to proxy traffic to your home server, or other providers free tier machines

Have you factored in your power costs? I never do :P buuut with older machines you get closer and closer to burning enough power to justify a hosting bill.

I like my users to have an interactive experience where they have to select the text in order to read it

Go for it! If you break the lemmyverse with a relay you’ve just fixed a problem before it was exploited!

The most dangerous curl sudo bash on the internet :P meh it’s probably fine…