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  • You can set it up as a “public” instance with closed registrations, and basically just use it as a self-host but have a lot more visibility and control. Or, you could probably play around with the nginx config and make it so that only the federation endpoints are accessible to the world and the actual web app is limited to just you. It will need to be “public” in some sense in order to be reachable to receive the content from other instances though.

    Honestly ot only need to be done once and we could spin up this kind of an instance just to explore the data on Lemmy. I bet it can be a ‘temporary’ instance without a static ip or domain and spin it up every time. You can also probably have that as an ordinary instance running from your local with ngrok or something. Probably even block requests from unknown users. I’ll think about it once I get some free time

    I personally don’t use or like docker, partly just from inexperience with it

    Drop me a line sometime in case you wish to discuss docker and I can show you how I use it. My line of work is around Kubernetes and been working with containers for years.

    and partly because I like to have more hands-on control over the deployment than I’m able to get with docker.

    Can you elaborate? What type of control don’t you have when using docker?

    Yeah, no admin is going to give you access to their database. Even if it is supposedly read-only or something, you would be able to read private messages and other things you really shouldn’t be able to read. There is also a theory that things like who voted for what are “supposed to” be private even though they are not.

    I guess we should keep an open mind about it. I mean, the main point of Lemmy is not private messaging. And I kinda like the idea of a social network where everything is public and read only except for the parts a user is allowed to write/edit. Even if it’s not, I treat it as such. Meaning I don’t expect my data to be private and the platform doesn’t push for stepping out of anonymity so for me it’s perfect.

    I don’t subscribe to that theory but that’s the prevailing view among Lemmy people I think. You would have to set up your own full instance which requires a fair investment of time and knowledge at this stage however you are doing it.

    I mean, it does require some work. But if you are a person that can xonverse with me on such topics, its probably not that much for you or any real barrier. But I should look into it more deeply. It would be awesome to be able to spin up some instance which is only for data exploration and is read only.