Currently I’m with lemmy.world, but if i wanted to create my own, to run at my house, would I need to register a domain? I like the idea of having my own domain but also don’t know how the storage works… like if I post to my own, sure it gets stored, but if I post to somewhere on lemmy.world, where does it get stored?
You can go to noip.com and get a ddns. I have a public url from there for a jellyfin server running at home.
As someone who paid noip.com far too much money for far too long, please don’t.
Yes they have a free tier, but you need to reactivate it every month or they will cancel it.
Getting your own domain from a good registrar will cost you <$20/year. I would have recommended Google Domains, but they’re shutting that down soon.
I think I’ll be moving my domains to Cloudflare, but I don’t know if they sell new domains. They do provide DDNS services for free though.
You can register new domains on Cloudflare