truth-social VS self-hosted-docker-server-templates

You realize Trump’s Truth Social is a Mastodon clone

Someone asked for and managed to get a zip file of the current TruthSocial codebase, so they posted it unofficially at: https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/truth-social https://github.com/justjosias/truth-social

So, in which order do I even go about this? I've installed Nginx-Proxy as a reverse proxy server but I can't get a working SSL with it. Tried installing some microservices but most of them need a functioning reverse proxy to get a working configuration. So it seems there's port forwarding in the router necessary, and my Asus RT-N66u has the settings for it but I never got it to work. So then I guess I'll need to self-host a router on the rPi and add a NAT-passthrough on the Asus. I see people posting their dashboards on here, sometimes with almost hundreds of microservices on them. How do you guys have time to set up all these, when it takes me days to not even get the reverse proxy working despite hours and hours of research, reading and troubleshooting? Like seriously, are there really no straightforward guides, or even better - compose files (kinda like this one, but just with a basic template) to get started with self hosting microservices (setup the network, add a dashboard)?