I choose not to open any ports to the Internet for security reasons. But use tailscale to allow access to my home network while im away. It was an easy setup and can put it on all my devices.

You can use pihole and route your traffic there with a vpn such as tailscale to block ads and more

The kingpin linux OS

I’m using Memmy for Lemmy on IOS. Works quite well and the first to have an official app for IOS/Lemmy.