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Yes you can use lemmy apps to access a self hosted instance, but you will need a real certificate for that to work.
A quick check of Lemmy.rip show it has a self signed certificate, thats not going to allow you to access it easily and my even stop federation from working.
You should be able to get a lets encrypt certificate very easily.
It's 2025. Not having "real certificates" is something admins intentionally do. Since there is Let's Encrypt available, all other solutions for non-paid certificates are obsolete.
With let's encrypt and DNS APIs, theres no excuse not to have a real certificate!
More so if you want to have that service interacte with other systems not your own
Exactly. With directly using certbot handling all and everything fully automatically I ran my old setup with a free dyndns subdomain for quite some time without any issues.
Since Let’s encrypt nowadays is basically implemented in every reverse proxy: certificates are an absolute no-brainer.
If someone manages to buy and configure a domain to serve selfhosted content, this person will also be able to either set up certbot or use the built-in functionality of their reverse proxy.
forsure I thought it had one through porkbun but yunohost might be messing with that
yunohost has a dedicated page in the admin ui for you to configure your domains and certificates. default is a self-signed one unless you generate a proper one
I see the error... You need a valid and non self-signed cert. See how letsencrypt work, its easy and the industry standard today on certs. Its also free and open source.
Yeah I had to click renew manually in yunohost, just assumed if porkbun showed it as valid it would work, my panels for wordpress mightve been doing it automatically lol
Glad you fixed it!
Can you access the instance from your phone web browser?
yes https://lemmy.rip/ works fine
Firefox has thrown a certificate error for me so maybe the app doesn't trust your certificate?
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=lemmy.rip&hideResults=on
After thought edit: try dropping in a Let's Encrypt cert and see how it goes.
Yeah, I had to renew through a setting in yunohost, got used to panels/managers doing it automatically or letting me paste it in
@slazer2au @3dmvr Yunohost should renew automatically. I got a renewal email from my Yunohost instance this morning. Check your cron job is running.
Mine worke just fine, what errors do you get? Does it work from web access?
Is your instance accessible from outside your self host? Does it federate?
I had/have no trouble here
Mobile apps should allow you to log into any instance. My Lemmy client won't connect to lemmy.rip either, and fails with the following error:
The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “lemmy.rip”, which could put your confidential information at risk.
This is also what I see when I try to connect to lemmy.rip in the browser:
I am able to bypass this warning and see the site in the browser.