I’m a farmer that was an IT guy a decade or so ago, which I guess is a background in it, but that’s not why I do it. Self-hosting is a self-reliance thing. I like to fix my own equipment, metal and silicon.
When it comes apart, I want to know the reason, and I like to invent new ways to do things, which means I have to be able to control my infrastructure.
I’d try it in docker instead of podman just to exclude that as an issue. Piped is a bit… janky.
And make sure your DNS is working from inside the container. It’ll show a frontend and even video titles, but not thumbnails and won’t play things without a perfectly working DNS.