The difference is that you need way more interaction. Expose a webserver on the internet and check how many requests you get from just bots.

You can control what you navigate and how to interact with the outside world, but you can’t control how the outside world will interact with your services.

Don’t expose anything from your local network to the internet (unless you want multiple new sysadmins in your house). Try tailscale instead.

I was thinking about that just today, I have something like 30+ services running on a single compose file and maintenance is slowly becoming hard. Probably moving to multiple compose file.

Soon, people will join the strange and buggy world of YouTube alternative frontends