I think you could be right. By my totally non-scientific calculation, America be headed towards a post world war II Germany position very soon.

Remnode does really cheap instances, but you’re not running Lemmy on their basement tier.

You might want to try out Tailscale. It’s a mesh network overlay that you can either share easily within your tailnet or out to the greater internet with funnel (sorta like cloudflare tunnels, but somewhat better at respecting privacy). It’s also possible to self host the controller, so you don’t have to depend on a third party.

Eh, kind of a cool way to redistribute wealth.

They’d never make it default when it costs them a thousanth of a penny per message.

If you like certbot, you should check out Caddy. Fully auto tls so long as the server resolves to a set domain name. Caddy-docker-proxy is pure magic with docker containers.