potatoguy

I run my instance using cloudflare tunnels, directly from my thinkpad (over wifi), these tunnels are helpful because you don’t need to open ports, etc, also, there are other tunneling options, like hosting a server on a VPS that tunnels to your own selfhosted server, as there are some alternatives to cloudflare in that aspect.

Idk, might be an option.

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

Probably yes, even if the instance blocks bots, they will go to another one to get the post, these ai bots are a curse on all instances.