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Question with hosting a lemmy instance behind a VPN
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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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You'll be able to get an initial set of data from federation but you won't get any data beyond that.
Federation works via "pushes", but since your instance would be behind a VPN the other instances in the federation wouldn't be able to see it to push content updates.