I was able to deploy my lemmy instance, seems it's working on its own as I can create users and change its configuration.

Now I'm trying to search for communities in other instances but I can't make them show up in my searches.

The logs show these errors

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Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: couldnt_find_object: Request error: error sending request for url (https://lemmy.ml/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Alemmy_support%40lemmy.ml): operation timed out  

ERROR HTTP request{http.method=GET http.scheme="https" http.target=/api/v3/ws otel.kind="server" request_id=adcd5dda-7e3c-4bd9-9be0-3314a2738ddf http.status_code=101 otel.status_code="OK"}: lemmy_server::api_routes_websocket: couldnt_find_object: Request error: error sending request for url (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support): operation timed out


  

From the host machine the url works properly, not sure if docker could be prevent it in some way.

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I'm trying to deploy my own instance following install with docker but seems it's not up to date. Or am I missing something?

Not sure if it's relevant, the version of the files to download is 0.17 instead of 0.17.3 as the latest release in the github repo.
Also, I'm guessing I'd need to download the rest of the files listed in the prod folder, not just the two in the documentation
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/tree/0.17.3/docker/prod

Also, I'm trying to use Caddy, I'm guessing I should replace nginx in the docker-compose.yml, correct?
Or can I use the Caddy service of the host machine instead of a new docker container?

I'm thinking about deploying my own instance where I'd be the only user and most probable I won't have any communities.
The only thing there will be my account to interact with as many other instances as I want.

What would be de pros and cons of having my account like this?
Would it be harder to interact with other instances in some way?

I vaguely remember reading something about leaking your private network setup if you used Let's Encrypt to generate your certificates.
Because of this when I installed my reverse proxy with caddy to handle my selfhosted home network I configured it to generate the certificates locally.
But this comes with the issue of the annoying warnings of the browsers plus being unable to connect to those devices/services which can't ignore it.

Am I being too paranoid? Is there any real concern about generating the certificates with Let's Encrypt for addresses which I don't intend to have outside my private network?