Yo - absolutely!

WG easy posts the GUI on a separate port than the primary Wireguard port you’d need to open in the firewall. I think it’s 51821 - but this can easily be changed depending on if you’re using docker-compose files or a gui like portainer to manage this.

In my case - I am using Nginx Proxy Manager - and it even has it’s own basic password requirement “Access List” availability. With NPM I’m routing that gui over vpn (local dns) but you could put it behind a password with limite security via Access List, or the step beyond look into “middleware” like Keycloak.

I am glad to see more people selfhosting their own. Makes me feel less out. Had the same issues.

I would be curious if there might be a way to give some sort of “attribute of credibility” that we could come up with.

I wonder if we could petition Lemmy.ml to make the adjustment? I’m not positive how the mod roles function just yet.

Right now I’m just using the web interface on mobile - selfhosted though so I got to change the theme to dark.

I concur and am actively researching this issue as well. I, for example created my own instance but am not entirely sure I should be the one to host yet another Selfhosted community. I am hoping for a dominate 2/3 of them to win out, preferably lemmy.ml as it was the first I discovered. Alas, you asked a very pertinent question that I think you should keep searching to find. I did see the owner on Lemmy.world actually responding to his thread…

We should absolutely instill the desire to keep this community alive though.